Beto O’Rourke makes his pitch to black voters at Al Sharpton forum by hunterw
NEW YORK — Beto O’Rourke made a pitch to black voters Wednesday with a Manhattan speech to African-American activists and church leaders in which he decried systemic racial injustices and praised the Civil Rights movement.O’Rourke began his speech before the annual convention of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in Manhattan by sharing stories of individuals who fought for civil rights in his hometown of El Paso.
O’Rourke went on to rattle off a series of issues to illustrate his point that racial equity in American remained an elusive goal. “This schoolhouse to jailhouse pipeline and this problem of mass incarceration is much deeper than our police and our courts. It is our country and we absolutely must face it,” O’Rourke said.
O’Rourke wrapped up his remarks after about eleven minutes, but before he left, Sharpton pressed him with a pair of policy questions that seemed to be a nod to O’Rourke’s reputation for generalities. Noting his group’s work on cases of police violence, Sharpton then pointed to President Trump’s decision to cut the use of consent decrees between the Justice Department and police departments. These agreements allowed the federal government to push for court enforced changes in local police departments that were found to have persistent civil rights issues. Sharpton asked O’Rourke if he would “bring back” the practice.
“People running for office come. We’re not here to heckle them. We’re here to hear them. We’ll heckle them at the polls if we’ve got to, but they need to all respect us … to come and address us. Anybody that does not address us does not respect us,” Sharpton said.
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