Posted on 03/23/2012 4:57:25 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Friday that he's grateful the rest of the country has sat up and taken notice of the tragic slaying of Trayvon Martin. But he can't help but wonder: Why has it taken so long for everyone else to recognize the chronic injustices that African Americans face?
"We're surprised that everyone else is surprised," Jackson told the Los Angeles Times. African Americans have tried for decades to get the rest of America to understand their plight, he said, particularly their beliefs that justice is still elusive in many parts of America, especially the Deep South.
Then along comes the Trayvon Martin case, and facts that are not in contention: Volunteer neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman pursued and then gunned down the unarmed 17-year-old last month, and never faced arrest because police said there was no evidence to contradict his claim that he fired in self-defense.
"I hope that this will be a transformative moment," Jackson said.
Jackson was speaking Friday morning from the Chicago offices of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition. He had just returned from duties in Belgium and Switzerland. He was in Geneva on Wednesday as part of a delegation of religious leaders trying to find a way to end the violence in Syria. Jackson was preparing to get back on a plane for a flight south so he can add his voice to the growing protests in and around Sanford, Fla., where Martin's shooting took place.
Jackson said the Martin case is getting plenty of media attention overseas, attention that is both embarrassing to white America and humiliating to black America.
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Pffttt!!
Blacks attack Blacks way more than Whites attack Blacks. That’s a fact jack.
Blacks are under attack by minorities with white sounding names.....
Wondered when Jessie was going to stop chasing young girls and join the re-election team.
Under counterattack, perhaps.
If that were true, it would take about two days.
Weren’t like 6 people shot and killed in the city of Chicago alone just the other day? Why are we paying so much attention to Trayvon again?
So are British tourist when visiting Sarasota, Fl
Shawn Tyson murdered two tourist after first humiliating them by making them pull their pants down and beg for their lives and then killing them. Didn’t even bother to rob them. Just wanted to kill em. Shawn was 17 at the time and had just been released for a detention center.
Is sharpton, jackson, farakan or wright going down there to say the British are under attack?
Time for the balck people to try some new leaders, jesse, al, et al, have been b!tching and whining about the same crap for 50+ years and apparently haven’t solved a single problem.
Time for someone to lead them that has a better message and can do more than scream “racism”.
It’s tragic about Trayvon Martin. It was a crime, no doubt... I just wished the race baiters would hold back just this once... sad to see it didn’t happen.
It’s tragic about Trayvon Martin. It was a crime, no doubt... I just wished the race baiters would hold back just this once... sad to see it didn’t happen.
This is not going to end well.
Anyone think George Zimmerman can get a fair trial?
Think whites are going to feel comfortable about being stereotyped based on the actions of hispanic George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida?
Think Obama will benefit from racial anger boiling over? (I don’t).
Why again is America racist when our president is black?
Why would anyone allow Al “blood on his hands” Sharpton to accuse police of anything (again)?
Can Sharpton really get away with this after causing Koreans to be racially firebombed in NYC?
Its going to be a long hot summer
This just happened two weeks ago...not a peep.
Black Teens set kid on fire for being ‘white boy’
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-03-04/news/31122324_1_white-boy-fire-tv-station
Race baiting whores abound..
Hard to believe anyone regardless of color, pays any attention to this individual.
To the race baiters it's okay for black to murder blacks however it's not okay for a non-black to defend themselves against a black.
10 killed and 40 wounded. Just another “normal weekend” in Chi-Town...
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