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."
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
“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.”
Excellent point! The left cares about the end result, their idea of social justice, not for the life of Trayvon Martin, except for his value as a tool of demagoguery. His death offers them an opportunity to motivate minorities through racism and hate, and the Democratic Party can’t afford to pass this up, not at a time when their base has grown apathetic about the hopey-changey thing.
Jesse Jackson would dance on the teens grave if it gave him more guilty white liberals to shake down for power and cash...
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