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Sharpton continues Detroit campaign

Friday, February 6, 2004

BY NATE TRELA
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

With one day to campaign before the Michigan Democratic presidential caucuses, the Rev. Al Sharpton took his message to scores of people too young to vote for him.

Sharpton spoke to about 250 junior high and high school students at the Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences, encouraging the mostly black audience to throw aside low expectations. He pointed to his humble beginnings - growing up on welfare in a single-parent home in Brooklyn - and talked about the thrill of running for president alongside people from wealthy backgrounds and, at least in the South Carolina primary, outperforming three of them.

``My mother tried to teach me that life is not about where you started from,'' Sharpton said. ``Life is about where you're going.''

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