Who would have imagined? Al Sharpton opposing a major trade union legislative initiative. Al Sharpton defending the secret ballot. Al Sharpton actually having principles!

Discussing the Employee Free Choice Act with National Action Network’s Charlie King on his own radio show yesterday, the Reverend Al Sharpton said:

Yeah, well, what I don’t understand about it which is why I’m in the campaign is why wouldn’t those of us who support workers being protected, why would we not want their privacy protected. I mean why would we want them opened up to this kind of possible coercion?

Hat tip to Ed Morrissey.

Fox News reports:

The professional genealogists, who work for Ancestry.com, found that Sharpton’s great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond’s great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed.

It’s a small world after all.