why is he wasting his time with white preachers, is what wyatt walker told me he was thinking. we have an insurgency to run. we've got the mass meetings. king is in a snit over these white clergy who in a different way they said to me it's what we expected, because they were doing evil or compromising with evil. so we have that patient, mannerly king. we have the professor king who lectures on the meaning of a moral law. we have the tour guide king who takes white into the intimate recesses of black vulnerability. when you have been humiliated, when your black brothers and sisters are lynched, when you have to explain to a 6-year-old girl that's his daughter, that's yoki yolanda, why she can't go to fun town, when you live with the debilitating sense of nobodiness. and just when you're going to think king is going to explode in anger because it's a black you, it's the collective people -- when you, when you, when you. whenever king gets into that rhythm, a 276-word sentence, he suddenly pulls out of it like an airplane in a swoon, and he says now turning back to the "you" of th

wyatt t. walker who was an aide to dr. civil rights leaders to watch and observe and make sure those elections were fair. i watched people stand for miles and days to vote. it reminded me of how my mother told me how they waited to vote in alabama after the voting rights act of '65. we have fought too long to turn back now, to have seen the fight in two continents but i also saw a man with dignity and pride who never would shrink to bitterness. i was proud to be around president mandela. i accompanied him as part of his delegation to the united nations when he addressed the u.n. when he first came to this country after getting out of jail. not only was he regal, but he was a man of peace. he was a man that did not want to deal with rank or bitterness. he really believed that we must not only win but we must be better than the spirits of hate and oppression that we fight. we must protect the vote but we must protect our spirit of reconciliation while we do. thanks for watching. i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now.