Posted on 03/25/2012 1:36:49 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Civil-rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson took the microphone shortly before noon today at the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Eatonville and pronounced slain teen-ager Trayvon Martin to be a martyr.
"Martyrs have power," Jackson said near the end of his hour-long sermon. "He represents all of us."
Dressed in a dark gray suit and blue tie, Jackson began his address with a chant: "Stop the violence. Save the Children. Keep hope alive!"
"How do we go from a moment to a movement that creates fundamental change," Jackson asked the capacity crowd, estimated at 1,600 people. "If it's a moment, we go home. If it's a movement, we go to war. Movements are made of serious substance…there is power in the blood of the innocent." ....
George Zimmerman, a volunteer Neighborhood Watch captain in the community, told police he shot the teen in self-defense.
But Jackson told the crowd at the church, "Zimmerman told police he had killed him. Shot him in the back of the head in self-defense."
His remark conflicts with previously published information. According to sources close to the investigation, the teen-ager was shot once in the chest.
Jackson, who marched with Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.in Alabama in the 1960s, referred to Zimmerman's claim to police that the teen-ager, who was wearing a hoodie, looked suspicious to him.
"We focus on kids wearing hoods. You know the people who started wearing hoods," Jackson said, referring to the Ku Klux Klan. "Whether you are wearing a hood or a sheet, nobody has the right to kill anybody."
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But Jackson told the crowd at the church, "Zimmerman told police he had killed him. Shot him in the back of the head in self-defense."
His remark conflicts with previously published information. According to sources close to the investigation, the teen-ager was shot once in the chest.
I jesse's home town, the murder rate this week end is down to 4 {so far} from 10 last week end, but where is the movement to save Chicago kids that are being murdered by blacks?
jesse is a race pimp, a fraud and a hypocrite.
Years ago it was jesse that said he feared black kids on the street at night but not white kids.
And Jessie says’s being lots of tv camera’s, I like being on tv...I’s likes being on da tv.
A tech-savvy freep went to what was left of his Twitter account, and turned of Javascript, to examine what l’il Trayvon had selected as his background image:
A photo of the now-imprisoned rapper, C-MURDER.
Ah, but he was an angel, sure..!
OK, OK, so he was also on a 1-week SCHOOL SUSPENSION, ok..!
He is USUALLY an angel, sure.
Yeah, and so they have an eye-witness saying HE attacked Zimmerman, finnnnne...! SO...?!
And Trayvon’s dad says the screaming, “help..!” voice from the 911 call is ZIMMERMAN.
You STILL have no evidence...! /sarc
So Jesse showed up on Florida to rail before he has the facts. I set my watch by this asshole and Sharpton.
Honest to goodness, these pics are accurate?
Jackson must be in good shape from all that running to get in the front of any racial parade.
Nothing new here. This jerk keeps singing the same tune.
I just hope I don’t pass-away at the same time jackson or sharpton do. I don’t want to be around when they are judged and they have to account for all the souls they’ve lost!
WOW! That image says a lot.
And who visited the White Hut with a very pregnant (and out of wedlock baby) Karin Stanford to "minister" to His Slickness during the Monica Lewinsky mess.
Jerk.
Heard CAIR is getting involved, too. Hmmmm
I wonder if somebody (or the Wayback Machine) has a screengrab of the page.
[picture of obama] [picture of holder]
“These guys want to lynch this hermano”
[picture of Zimmerman]
Martyr is word beloved by Muslims. Is that what the media are trying to tell us? Trayvon was a Muslim and not just a common punk thug?
Ahhh the left, so damn predicable..guess they are afraid that they will lose Florida in November. Cause mass race riots in Florida, scare the white people into voting Dem..so predicable
How About Jesse, teaching your kids to:
Be Polite
Keep Your Cool
Don’t beat up others
This guy Trayvon was executed for declaring the gospel of Jesus? Wow. The media is really suppressing that!
This was the next day...I call BS....Crime scene photos are not used for ID.
Why do all liberal chants seem to sound the same, as if they don't have enough imagination to think up new ones, and have to keep cannibalizing the old ones.
Just when you think the left can’t sink any lower then they already have throughout the years, they find a way to even surprise me!
Jesse Jackson and other leaders in the black community don’t five a flying F about Trayvon Martin. If they really did care about the black community their asses would have been in Chicago last weekend when 10 people were shot(Including a 6 year old girl) they were massacred, randomly. Not a peep from the media or these so-called leaders. If I were the parents of those victims in Chicago I would be really offended, that this one 17 yr old in Florida has gotten more attention then any of their family members have gotten who were slaughtered.
The aged 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus spoiled brats and their bratty ideological issue -- arguably the Establishment -- show their Hoodies to support oppressed peoples. Never let a crisis go to waste. Obama. Mmmm mmmm mmm.
Networks and cable news employee flock to show their hoodies. The hoodie is in! --
Never let a crisis go to waste. Obama. Mmmm mmmm mmm.
(Image obtained from google.)
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