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 “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?”

i guess he should also blame barry, the media that barry controls, and the rest of barry's gangsters in the whitehouse...

03/26/2012

African-American conservative commentator Deneen Borelli told TheDC she thinks Martin Luther King, Jr. wouldn’t “condone” the way some activists have handled the Martin shooting.

“He [King] would never condone what Spike Lee has done, who tweeted Zimmerman’s address,” Borelli, the author of “BlackLash,” a book critical of tactics employed by some progressives in situations where race may be a factor, said. “He would not condone President Obama’s comments and Al Sharpton injecting himself into this situation the way that he has. This is something that Martin Luther King would absolutely not stand for.”

Borelli said she thinks President Barack Obama, the Rev. Al Sharpton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others have unnecessarily inserted race into this issue. “This has been turned into an issue of race by those who have made it an issue of race,” Borelli said. “Now, you have Al Sharpton injecting himself into the situation.”

“Of course, it’s a tragic situation and my heart goes out to this young man’s parents,” Borelli added. “But, when you look at how the tone of this situation has really been set from the top, and I’m talking about President Obama. What he should have done is emphasize that we are a nation of laws, not of men, and that justice in the end will prevail. But, sadly, he injected race into the issue.”

Sharpton and Jackson are expected to rally in Sanford, Fla., on Monday afternoon. They plan to lead a march across town and before protesting outside a city commission meeting.

The media never reports these views.

ummmm obummer c can't run again in the next race

everyone knows sharpton is a @#$%$^&@@&

Sharpton could engender a great deal more support by fighting black on black crime and admonishing his followers for their disgusting behavior in california

you are correct. black on black crime is the majority crime statistic in this country.

ironically Z is hispanic. that would not be a white man shooting a black man

frm the looks of things stand your ground is here to stay. should be a warning irrespective of race

never mind....wrong thread..