The furor over the shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin is being “exploited” by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to “racially divide the country,” a civil-rights leader charged yesterday.
Martin’s “family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions,” the Rev. C.L. Bryant, a former NAACP leader, said of the 17-year-old hoodie-wearing black youth who was shot dead by a mixed white-Latino neighborhood-watch volunteer.
The pastor accused Jackson and Sharpton — who yesterday organized a thousands-strong protest in Sanford, Fla., where the shooting occurred last month — of “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy” in an interview with The Daily Caller, a news Web site.
Bryant, the past president of the NAACP chapter in Garland, Texas, called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” for inserting themselves into the drama.
Former NAACP leader Bryant said the rallies organized by Sharpton and Jackson suggest there is an epidemic of “white men killing black young men” while ignoring much more prevalent black-on-black crime.
“The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime,” he said. “The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.”
Bryant said he wants to see protests about those problems.
“Why not be angry about the wholesale murder that goes on in the streets of Newark and Chicago?” he asked. “Why isn’t somebody angry about that 6-year-old girl who was killed on her steps last weekend in a cross fire when two gang members in Chicago start shooting at each other? Why is there no outrage about that?”
Bryant, an outspoken conservative, predicted that “people like Sharpton and those on the left” will make Martin’s death an issue in the presidential race.
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If Sharpton hadn’t been so politically connected, he would have been indicted for leading the Crown Heights pogrom twenty years ago. We should remember that he is a leader of the party of people like Hikind and Greenfield, which allows himn to get away with his racist rants. Is it a surprise he is at it again – at least this time he’s direct his racist fury at someone other than us (apparently the “shooter” was an Hispanic who was attacked and was defending himself).
Our response should be to vote Republican, and urge Jews who supporting the Democrats to switch.
New information seems to be indicating that this shooting really WAS in self defense.
It looks like this kid, not knowing Zimmerman was armed, attacked him because he didn’t like that he was following him. He punched Zimmerman in the face and was banging his head into the sidewalk.
It was only THEN that he shot him.
You know it is all avout exploiting a situation when the mothe wants to trademark the name.
What’s with the “white-Latino”. I never heard that one before.
guess he fails to realize this is what Sharpton and Jackson
do it is all they know how to do. Look at eithers past history. their history speaks for itself
Without such incidents Rev Al wouldn’t have any press coverage and would soon be forgotten. I’m certain he relishes such unfortunate deaths. But Blacks killing Blacks, he ignores probably since his protests wouldn’t make the 6 o’clock news.
I admire Rev Al. A self made man of no substance who has found a way to earn a living with his mouth.
Can anyone say Duke Lacrosse Team? This is the same rush to judgement type of response by the leftist liberal media, always looking to promote some cause. Hopefully, the truth, whatever it may be, is uncovered a lot faster. The race mongering is never good.
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This IS a typo, right?