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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Yep. Sad to say but the administration needs violent conflict, both racial and economic class warfare, to divert attention from the corruption, facism and abject failure of their policies.
It’s getting harder and harder to see the difference between who Jackson is and what he is.
The truth of the matter is Jackson, Sharpton, obama, etc. all WANT racism. They’re using this Martin killing to fan the flames. It’s very difficult not to fall for it.
I state categorically that the unalloyed hatred of whites that’s been taught to urban blacks has driven them stark, raving mad.
It's true, and thank you for the reminder. They don't give a flying f--k about that boy except insofar as him being shot dead gives them something to rant about in front of a camera, and few moments fleeting power and influence. And that goes for the incompetent in the White House, too.
There have been 100 homicides in Chicago so far this year, including a 6 year old girl last week. Where’s the outrage? Is it because the Chicago murders are mostly black-on-black crimes? When a non-black kills a black, it’s conclusively presumed that it was motivated by racism-that’s profiling.
Some questions arising out of the “Trayvon” death being; how long can the left keep people “energized” by booming the death? Will the “Hoodie” people join with the “Occupy Wall Street” people? Does the left want, and can they achieve, riots this summer and at the Political conventions? While remote can enough chaos be achieved before November so that “The Divine One” can declare martial law?
Selling like hotcakes! Guaranteed profits for hoodie stock investors!
So tired of these race baiters.
Ninety-three percent (93% ) of the deaths of young black men are at the hands of other black men.
Homicide is the leading cause of death of young black men.
The MSM doesn’t care about the slaughter going on in black communities because it doesn’t excite black voters - doesn’t get ‘em mad and ready to vote for white liberal elites.
The Jesse Jackson types - self-appointed black ‘leaders’ - don’t care about the 93% of black men killed by black men because those deaths don’t help shake-down elite, rich, guilty-white liberals for power and cash.
The Black Panthers don’t care about the 93% of black men killed by black men - because they don’t get to strut around acting tough. Pushing their neighbors around. Nope. They don’t care - not a peep out of them.
No one cares about the 93% of black men killed by other blacks except their mothers... and somehow, that’s sad.
All true what you say. If you think about it on another front, blacks are being dimished in another way also; I believe there is a significant number of abortions performed with black females, probably disproportiately so. Yet, we hear no outcry here, either. What do liberals do so well that commands so much loyalty from blacks in the face of all this?
You're right about the abortion issue - it's another slaughter going on in the black community. It's another issue not being talked about BECAUSE liberals don't want it talked about - the MSM takes their marching orders from white liberal elites. It's not 'news' until liberal elites say it's news. I sent a link - look at it - we'll talk more later.
These people are cold, hard calculating sons of bitches and will do anything to keep their power, their influence, the wealth and sacrifice from which they 'exempt' taxation and pennance - all because they feel.
In the end, these elites want to control our liberties and our minds while they proceed unfettered.
No doubt in my mind this is being fanned for political purposes.
Like a maggot drawn to rotting carrion.
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