MSNBC PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton have to be actually happy with himself for nicknaming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “Child Trump” throughout a Wednesday protest, he traveled over to The Late Present on CBS on Thursday to inform host Stephen Colbert that DeSantis is “attempting to make use of the race wedge” to turn out to be president and that his schooling insurance policies are not any totally different than birtherism.

Colbert started by referencing Sharpton’s newest rally and dishonestly asking, “I do know you simply got here again from Florida, from an occasion down there, protesting the makes an attempt to ban black historical past from lecture rooms in Florida. Do you might have a message for DeSantis and others who’re attempting to regulate that curriculum?”

No person’s banning black historical past, what they’re banning is hyper-partisan variations of historical past, however naturally Sharpton took Colbert’s dishonest framing and ran with it:

Nicely, I feel that we’re to have the nation, to turn out to be the nation that it proposes to be, we have to know all people’s historical past and we want to have fun all people’s historical past and never censor it and what the governor is attempting to do there, Governor DeSantis, is he’s attempting to make use of cultural struggle to run for president, us in opposition to them. ‘I am going to do that to the LGBTQ neighborhood. I am going to do that with girls’s rights. I’ll fly migrants out of Florida, ship them to Martha’s Winery. I’ll resolve what makes whites uncomfortable in black historical past’ relatively than saying the extra we study concerning the fact about all of us, it brings us all collectively. 

 Of all of the individuals to carry us collectively, Al Sharpton is close to the underside of the checklist. Nonetheless, he claimed that, “It is imagined to be the United States, however he thinks as a result of his mentor and political daddy, Donald Trump, used race to enter politics as a result of remember Donald Trump began with birtherism, Obama was not one in every of us. He’s attempting to make use of the race wedge, so Child Trump, that you name DeSantis, is attempting to use Black Historical past Month to run for president and a few of us are saying that our historical past is just too necessary to us to let that occur.”

After the cheers from the viewers subsided, Colbert then requested, “are you shocked that on this case Important Race Principle, or CRT, as its abbreviated, is simply getting used as kind of a catch-all for something that individuals don’t love on the farthest proper reaches of the Republican Get together? The whole lot will get dumped in there, it’s used as a byword for divisiveness. Are you shocked that it is getting used as fairly such a cudgel?”

Regardless of it being a softball, Sharpton didn’t precisely reply the query, as an alternative selecting to tout his personal significance, “I feel that I am not as shocked as I’m attempting to be certain we dramatize that that’s occurring. That is why we did the march yesterday, the rallies, we’ll be doing others as a result of I feel that they’re—the shock I feel they’ve is that many individuals of various communities at the moment are starting to come collectively.”

Sharpton then recalled how a few of his rallies have extra white individuals than black individuals and that, in 2021, he preached on the funeral of a white 17-year outdated who was killed by police which has nothing to do with DeSantis’s schooling insurance policies.

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Here’s a transcript for the February 16-taped present:

MSNBC The Late Present with Stephen Colbert

2/17/2023

12:06 AM ET

STEPHEN COLBERT: I do know you simply got here again from Florida, from an occasion down there, protesting the makes an attempt to ban black historical past from lecture rooms in Florida. Do you might have a message for DeSantis and others who’re attempting to regulate that curriculum?

AL SHARPTON: Nicely, I feel that we’re to have the nation, to turn out to be the nation that it proposes to be, we have to know all people’s historical past and we want to have fun all people’s historical past and never censor it and what the governor is attempting to do there, Governor DeSantis, is he’s attempting to make use of cultural struggle to run for president, us in opposition to them. “I am going to do that to the LGBTQ neighborhood. I am going to do that with girls’s rights. I’ll fly migrants out of Florida, ship them to Martha’s Winery. I’ll resolve what makes whites uncomfortable in black historical past” relatively than saying the extra we study concerning the fact about all of us, it brings us all collectively. 

It is imagined to be the United States, however he thinks as a result of his mentor and political daddy, Donald Trump, used race to enter politics as a result of remember Donald Trump began with birtherism, Obama was not one in every of us.

He’s attempting to make use of the race wedge, so Child Trump, that you name DeSantis, is attempting to use Black Historical past Month to run for president and a few of us are saying that our historical past is just too necessary to us to let that occur. 

COLBERT: Nicely, are you shocked, once more, speaking about momentary victories and ongoing battles, are you shocked that on this case Important Race Principle, or CRT, as its abbreviated, is simply getting used as kind of a catch-all for something that individuals don’t love on the farthest proper reaches of the Republican Get together? The whole lot will get dumped in there, it’s used as a byword for divisiveness. 

Are you shocked that it is getting used as fairly such a cudgel? 

SHARPTON: I feel that I am not as shocked as I’m attempting to be certain we dramatize that that’s occurring. That is why we did the march yesterday, the rallies, we’ll be doing others as a result of I feel that they’re—the shock I feel they’ve is that many individuals of various communities at the moment are starting to come collectively.

I bear in mind when George Floyd occurred and I went to do the funerals and work with the household and a few of the rallies and marches. I went to some rallies, there have been extra whites than blacks, saying that that is unsuitable. 

I do not forget that there was a younger white 17-year-old younger man in a spot known as Beebe, Arkansas, that was killed by police, his household known as me and lawyer Ben Crump to come back in. Ben Crump grew to become the lawyer for the household, I preached his funeral, they do not put that on right-wing information. I will not name their identify as a result of I do not promote in your platform my adversaries.