One week after he delivered a powerful eulogy during George Floyd’s funeral, Rev. Al Sharpton is furthering his message of action and is demanding Donald Trump to no longer dodge the issue of systemic racial inequality in America.
The civil rights leader and founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN) gave the keynote speech on Juneteeth, June 19, in Tulsa, Oklahoma for a commemoration of the anniversary of the emancipation of enslaved Black people in the United States.
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Sharpton demanded that President Trump, who is holding a rally in Tulsa the next day on Saturday, June 20, trade in his usual divisive talking points for words of unity and awakening.
A collective group of community-based organizations united together to host Tulsa’s annual, Juneteenth celebration in the heart of the Historic Greenwood District, Home of America's Black Wall Street, on Friday, June 19 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
"President said he was coming on June 19 didn’t know [about] June 19, but if you didn’t know about Juneteenth it was because you were so incentive and isolated and if you did know, you were lying,” said Sharpton of Trump.
