Sharpton compares Ocasio-Cortez to Chisholm at voting rights march

Civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the organizers of this year’s March on Washington, compared New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) to the late presidential candidate Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-N.Y.) while introducing her at the event. “I know people; I was Shirley Chisholm’s youth director,” Sharpton stated on stage while introducing Ocasio-Cortez,…

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