In a stormy sea of dissent and debate, a place for a rare moment of harmony…
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.” (SEE ALSO: Jesse Jackson says Trayvon Martin ‘murdered and martyred’)
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.
Expect him to be called all kinds of racist names for daring to say what needed to be said.
They are turning this exploitation into a “race card” lottery.
Not to mention the upsurge in Black on White Crime. I have pondered the question for years, why doesn’t Sharpton/Jesse et al use their influence for something ‘positive’ in the Black community?
I think I know why – being a “positive” Leader, mentor, and role model isn’t as lucrative. And, once you rise to the challenge and cure the ills…well… exploitation and big money goes away with the cure…
So, what does that say about these two and others like them?
What kills me is that these two are suppose to be “Godly” men. I will ask the Liberal question “What does God think about them and their actions”?