Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Ex-NAACP big rips Al & Jesse for handling of Trayvon Martin shooting


Ex-NAACP big rips Al & Jesse for handling of Trayvon Martin shooting

Last Updated:9:28 AM, March 27, 2012

Posted:12:25 AM, March 27, 2012

The furor over the shooting of Florida teen Trayvon Martin is being "exploited" by the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to "racially divide the country," a civil-rights leader charged yesterday.

Martin's "family should be outraged at the fact that they're using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions," the Rev. C.L. Bryant, a former NAACP leader, said of the 17-year-old hoodie-wearing black youth who was shot dead by a mixed white-Latino neighborhood-watch volunteer.

The pastor accused Jackson and Sharpton — who yesterday organized a thousands-strong protest in Sanford, Fla., where the shooting occurred last month — of "acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy" in an interview with The Daily Caller, a news Web site.

Bryant, the past president of the NAACP chapter in Garland, Texas, called Jackson and Sharpton "race hustlers" for inserting themselves into the drama.



Read more:http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/race_buzzards_circle_trayvon_GjszYV5diCTZezdmxbrLON#ixzz1qKBztZFt

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