Al Sharpton Slams Justice Scalia for ‘Tone-Deaf’ Remark About ‘The Blacks’

During a hearing in the Supreme Court on Tuesday over affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scalia made a comment about the 14th Amendment, saying it protects everybody and not “only the blacks.” Needless to say, MSNBC’s Al Sharpton was positively shocked by this and had some tough words for the Supreme Court justice.

He asked, “Is this the kind of tone-deaf language we should be hearing in the nation’s highest court in the year 2013?”

Here’s Scalia’s comment in full:

“We’ve held that the 14th Amendment protects all races. I mean, that was the argument in the early years, that it protected only the blacks. But I thought we rejected that.”

Sharpton reminded viewers that Scalia once referred to voting as a “racial entitlement.”

Watch the video below, via MSNBC:

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