What Really Happened

While I'm loathe to defend Bill O'Reilly who I agree is a pompous jerk, albeit an entertaining pompous jerk, he's definitely getting a raw deal from the liberal media who seeks to destroy him.
Left wing websites are taking O'Reilly's comments about his lunch with Al Sharpton out of context.
O'Reilly and Sharpton ate lunch at Sylvia's a famous soul food restaurant in Harlem.
O'Reilly discussed his lunch on NPR and his comments were taken completely out of context.

Here's what the media says O'Reilly said "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship. It was the same."
"There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' You know, I mean, everybody was—it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."

What they missed was that O'Reilly was describing the fact that there is no cultural divide in America. There was a hint of sarcasm which makes his comments easy to misconstrue but his point was a great one, black people are just like everyone else.
And his other point was that some people in America who don't know a lot of black people see rappers on TV and think that's the way black people are, O'Reilly was pointing out that rappers are not at all representative of black culture.