Sharpton's primary function appears to be misdirecting black folks' absolutely justifiable fury into votes for politicians who might systematically neglect their concerns but nonetheless pay requisite homage to "the Rev".
Conceding there may be a few isolated instances of voter fraud, King wrote "thousands upon thousands more people are stricken from voter rolls without justifiable cause or have their vote suppressed".
One hundred years ago people struggled with questions that have now been resolved, such as whether women should have the right to vote and whether slavery was justifiable.
"If a policy maker refuses to address the issue, sitting down in their office to uphold the will of the 147,000 people who voted for this is a justifiable act, and we're going to continue to do acts of civil disobedience until they recognize the election.
The bill, approved by the House Judiciary Committee last week on a 9-to-3 party-line vote, establishes in part that "homicide is justifiable if committed by any person in the lawful defense of such person, or of his or her husband, wife, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant, or the unborn child of any such enumerated person".
Despite a justifiable mistrust in domestic political actors, those that do vote may not be aware of the extent to which their decision will also determine the role that international actors will play in shaping their future.
"This raises justifiable concerns that this is an effort to suppress voting and purge voter lists, and there are people that ought to be ashamed of how we've gotten here," said Kirk Watson, a Democratic state senator in Texas.
The spasm of panic from the Giuliani camp seems justifiable, since he and Bloomberg could end up in a scramble over the votes of moderate Republicans, but at the top of the list of those who would not benefit from a Bloomberg candidacy has to be Hillary Clinton.
The young people of the UK overwhelming voted for remaining in the EU and young people in our countries have justifiable expectations of the EU offering them perspectives.
