Having grown up in the New York City tri-state area, I’ve been aware of Al Sharpton for a long, long time.  This may be the first time I’ve ever been aware of agreeing with him:

“… you cannot normalize what they are doing in China. And to go there and act like all is well is to normalize some very brutal behavior …

So we’re supposed to leave our principles of protest at the — when we check in at Customs? … I don’t think so. We need to let China know, ‘You live in a world that human rights is non-negotiable.”