Posted on 08/22/2013 3:28:50 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Thursday that conservatives are wrong to compare the Trayvon Martin case to the death of Chris Lane.
During an interview on MSNBC, Jackson was asked whether he thinks that “some on the right are making a false equivalency” between Martin and Lane, a young white baseball player allegedly killed Friday by three black teenagers.
“Yeah,” he said. “They want to connect what happened in the Trayvon Martin case with these three young men on this foolish rampage killing this ballplayer.”
Jackson said a better comparison was a case in Oklahoma last year when two white men shot five and killed three people in a black community. Jackson said conservatives “seem to have forgotten” about last year’s slayings.
“That’s really more of an equivalent,” Jackson said. “But there are no winners in any of this sickness.”
On Thursday, Jackson denounced Lane’s killings in far stronger terms than he did over Twitter on Wednesday, when he was mocked by some on the right for saying the actions of Lane’s killers should be “frowned upon.”
“I hope we all see that it is not right, that what these young men did was flat out wrong and sick,” Jackson said. “And what happened there in June last year was wrong and sick, killing people for no cause.”
Some on the right have sought to draw a connection between Lane and Martin, the Florida teen killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in 2012, and argued that the muted reaction to Lane’s case is racially motivated.
Commentators on the left have argued that Lane’s alleged killers were arrested immediately, while Zimmerman was not arrested after shooting Martin.
True, the baseball player wasn’t a thug who decided to attack a person.
Says the guy who spits in white peoples’ food.
No one’s comparing St. Skittles to Mr. Lane.
They’re comparing the media coverage of the death of St. Skittles to the media coverage of the death of Mr. Lane.
But Jackson knows that perfectly well.
It’s a thousand times worse.
It’s a thousand times worse.
What Z-Man did was justifiable self-defense. What these three yoots did was coldblooded murder.
So, big difference indeed.
Question #1...were any of the three punks responsible for the Aussie’s murder found to have a bloody nose or head...or were heard to be calling for help in the moments before the death?
“it’s not racist when we do it”
True, Trayvon is only comparable to the murdering feral Negro yute wannabe gangbangers.
Thanks for clarifying that. Ever since the Kennedy administration and then Watergate, “journalism” hasn’t been the same.
Too bad jessie jackwagon still can't get it straight: the two "white men" who shot 5 and killed 3 last year were really Indians. If you're gonna try to keep score, get a scorecard so you can see who the players are.
He’s right, one was murder and the other was self defense. One the victim had a gun while the other the victim was unarmed. What a racist.
Pray for America to Wake Up
The little thugs did exactly what Jackson and his kind are falsely accusing Zimmerman of doing.
They stalked their victim like a pack of dogs and killed him in cold blood.
They aren’t even close. GZ should never had been bothered/arrested/tried. There was never any kind of legitimate case against him.
Lane, on the other, was 100% in cold blood hate crime.
I frown upon any attempts to compare the two.
True nbc had to edit the Zimmerman 911 call to make them look racist me lanes shooter in this case is racist
“Jackson: Right wrong to compare Trayvon to slain baseball player”
Jackson is correct in the sense that Zimmerman shot St. Trayvon in self defense.
These three feral animals shot an innocent man in the back for the hell of it.
Anyone who can rationalize any kind of an excuse for these thugs is as much a part of the problem as they are.
That is what should be shoved in Jesse Jagmo's face.
Yep.
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