Al Sharpton, never one to bypass an opportunity to capture the spotlight, injected himself into the Trayvon Martin case, just as he did in the Duke University phony rape fiasco. Jesse Jackson, not to be outdone by his fellow poverty pimp also joined in the fray.
On Monday Sharpton bellowed that Martin’s parents endured “insults and lies” over reports that Trayvon attacked his shooter and over reports that he had been suspended from school when caught with a pot pipe and a baggie of marijuana residue on one occasion and for possessing a burglar tool (a screw driver along with a bag of women’s jewelry) on another occasion.
Jackson, whose star has been fading, made the absurd charge that blacks are being targeted by whites and that incarcerating and killing them is big business.
Here is what the Rev. C. L. Bryant thinks of those two rabblerousing “race hustlers”:
FORMER NAACP LEADER ACCUSES SHARPTON AND JACKSON OF ‘EXPLOITING’ TRAYVON MARTIN
By Alex Pappas
The Daily Caller
March 26, 2012
Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.”
“His family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions,” Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller.
The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”
Jackson, for example, recently said Martin’s death shows how “blacks are under attack” and that “targeting, arresting, convicting blacks and ultimately killing us is big business.”
George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, killed Martin, a 17-year-old black man who was unarmed at the time of his death, last month. Zimmerman has claimed to have shot Martin in self-defense and has not been charged with a crime.
But Bryant, who explores the topic of black-on-black crime in his new film “Runaway Slave,” said people like Jackson and Sharpton are being misleading to suggest there is an epidemic of “white men killing black young men.”
“The epidemic is truly black on black crime,” Bryant said. “The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.”
Bryant said he wishes civil rights leaders were protesting 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 six-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 said he worries that “people like Sharpton and those on the left” will make Martin’s death a campaign issue in the presidential race.
He speculated that they will “turn this evolving tragedy of this young man into fodder to say… if you don’t re-elect Obama then you will have unbridled events or circumstances like this happening in the streets to young men wearing hoodies.”
He also criticized President Obama for his “nebulous statement” responding to Martin’s death that “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
“What does that mean?” Bryant asked. “What was the purpose in that?”
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