Reverend Lambastes Sharpton and Jackson as ‘Race Hustlers,’ Calls Trayvon Martin a ‘Thug’

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rev-jesse-lee-petersonThe Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, president of the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND), a conservative nonprofit, made some strong statements on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” on Thursday. In addition to lambasting Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for inserting race into Trayvon Martin’s death and George Zimmerman’s subsequent trial, he called the 17-year-old shooting victim a “thug.”

The exchange began with Peterson claiming that race played no role in the highly-publicized tragedy.

“This case was not about race at all and what happened – you have the race-hustlers… like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and others who turned it into a race issue in order to gain power and wealth,” he charged.

Peterson also targeted President Barack Obama, calling his past comment about Martin (“You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”) “insane.”

These statements, he said, were intended to “incite the anger of black Americans and others.”

Morgan, clearly in disagreement with Peterson throughout the interview, asked if Zimmerman would have taken the same deadly action had Martin been, say, a white individual in a hoodie – someone like Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. Peterson, not willing to back down, said that he believes the situation would have ended in the same manner.

“If the situation that happened with Trayvin and George had been the same, yes … I imagine that the same outcome would have been the same,” he said. “George Zimmerman would have done whatever it took to protect himself. It didn’t matter to George Zimmerman the color of the man.”

The interview became contentious when Peterson proclaimed that “Trayvon Martin was a thug.” Morgan fervently disagreed and took exception to the fact that the faith leader said that everyone, including the television host and Martin’s parents, knew this assertion to be true.

Morgan said, “Don’t you speak for me,” noting that “there’s very little evidence that Trayvon Martin was a thug.”

Source: THE BLAZE

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8 COMMENTS

  1. finally someone who is not afraid the say the truth – our judicial system does not always work but that is all we have unless we want anarchy!!

  2. Sharpton and Jackson, 2 guys looking for national publicity. Go feel sorry for the kids being killed on the streets of New York and Chicago.

  3. A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged” Let’s see Morgan in the same situation as Zimmerman, I have no doubt as to the outcome.

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