By: Gentle Jones
James BrownOn Wednesday in Harlem, Reverend Al Sharpton held a festive holiday party at The National Action Network’s national headquarters, “The House of Justice.” Rev. Sharpton had just flown in from doing the annual James Brown toy give-away in Augusta, Georgia, with the children of Mr. Brown and he was in good spirits. Christmas impacts Reverend Sharpton, deeply as he lost “surrogate father” James Brown, on this day (December 25, 2006).

James Brown – Soulful Christmas
 
 
 

“He made soul music a world music,” Sharpton told the Associated Press. “What James Brown was to music in terms of soul and Hip-Hop, rap, all of that, is what Bach was to classical music. This is a guy who literally changed the music industry. He put everybody on a different beat, a different style of music. He pioneered it.”

James Brown Interestingly, Rev. Al Sharpton vowed to grow his hair after James Brown told him that his locks were a source of strength, as in the biblical story of Sampson and Delilah. Rachel Noerdlinger recalled James Brown asking Rev. Sharpton to style his hair in the same manner as Brown’s, when Brown took a young Al Sharpton to the White House to meet George Bush Sr. in 1981.

James Brown – Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto
 
 
 

James Brown introduced Reverend Al Sharpton to the Vice President of the United States as his “son.” Rev. Sharpton promised to wear the style so long as Mr. Brown was alive. When Mr. Brown passed Rev. Sharpton vowed to continue the tradition.

James Brown Rapper Snoop Dogg was similarly instructed by Mr. Brown to grow his hair and to this day also wears his hair long.

James Brown – Christmas In Heaven
 
 
 

“That’s my Godfather,” Snoop Dogg said. “The hardest working man in show business of all time. He’ll be missed, but his music and his legacy will live on through me in every way you can imagine.”

James Brown Rev. Sharpton is working with Hip-Hop in 2010 on a concerted effort to stop the violence that’s killing too many innocent people. He’s also pushing education reform, coming fresh off of a tour that President Obama asked him to embark upon with Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and US Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Rev. Sharpton and Wyclef Jean met with Secretary Duncan in December to discuss working together to close the racial achievement gap in public education.

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