Ex-NAACP Leader Takes On the Race Hustlers
In an interview with the Daily Caller, former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant challenged the credibility of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, whom he accused of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.” He further accused the duo of being “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”
On Monday, Jackson and Sharpton held a protest attended by thousands in Sanford, Florida, the town where Martin was shot. Al Sharpton took the opportunity to work up a racist angle in a case where, at this juncture, such an angle is as tenuous as it gets. “We are here with two million signatures of people petitioning you to execute the immediate arrest of the killer of Trayvon Martin,” said Sharpton. If the board does not act swiftly, he added, the town could become “the Birmingham of the 21st century, as a place of racial intolerance and double standards.”
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