The Rev. Al Sharpton forgave Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Monday for a vicious attack in which the environmentalist said the civil-rights activist “has done more damage to the black cause than George Wallace.”
“I accept Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s statements that these are not his current views,” Sharpton said after The Post exclusively revealed the damning opinion, found in a copy of Kennedy’s 2001 diary.
In the diary, Kennedy ripped into Sharpton, calling him a “buffoon” and saying he and the Rev. Jesse Jackson “give me the creeps.”
He accused Sharpton of having “suffocated the decent black leaders in New York” with his “venal blackmail and extortion schemes.”
Kennedy also excoriated Gov. Cuomo — his former brother-in-law — as well as Rudy Giuliani and President George W. Bush, but said Sunday that his views had changed in the past decade.
“I did not know him in 2001,” Sharpton said of Kennedy. “But I do know that my views on people and things have changed over 13 years, so maybe his have, too. God bless him.”
Kennedy also kept track of his romantic conquests in the diary, The Post exclusively reported.
