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Nice touch with the faux Al Sharpton


Had a good laugh at that once I realized it was basically supposed to be him. The stuff going on in this movie reminds me of the race baiting media of present day, kinda ahead of its time in that sense.

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Compared to the real Al Sharpton, Rev Bacon was as laid back as William F. Buckley. Sharpton would have destroyed the courtroom and then marched on McCoy's Park Avenue residence until the TV cameras ran out of videotape.

And Rivera would have somehow gotten his mug in every shot as if he were the most important part of the story.

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