During a news conference Friday, Sharpton questioned whether Beck and others understand King's words.
"They have the right to rally. But what they don't have the right to do is distort what Dr. King's dream was about," he said.
He said King's legacy is not owned by black people alone, and others can have different views of him. But he said they can't have different views of King's speech.
"His speech says clearly that he wanted to see a nation where the federal government protects us from those and states that would not uphold our civil rights," Sharpton said.
"You can't have a march telling government to leave us alone and say you're reclaiming a march where they came to appeal to government to protect us," he said. "They're having an anti-government march on a day that King came to appeal to government. You can't have it both ways."
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I do hate to see Mr. Sharpton keep flaming the fire toward racial hatred. Sharpton should be standing beside Mr. Beck instead of bashing him.
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