He's not stupid and is capable of making some valid points, and making them articulately, but then he starts talking about numbers and mysticism and very quickly, he's lost me. With Al Sharpton, the albatross around his neck will always be the Tawana Brawley fiasco. For Farrakhan, the albatross around his neck will always be, at least to me, his involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965.