Jesse Jackson Continues To Exploit Florida Tragedy For Personal Gain, Tells Church Trayvon Martin Is a “Martyr” – (USA Today) — Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson told people at a church in Eatonville, Fla., on Sunday that slain teen Trayvon Martin is a “martyr,” the Orlando Sentinel reports.
“Martyrs have power,” Jackson said of the unarmed black 17-year-old who was shot dead Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., by a neighborhood watch volunteer who deemed him suspicious and who police describe as white.
“He represents all of us,” Jackson said of Trayvon.
Jackson faced a capacity crowd of 1,600 at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church and said Trayvon’s death, which has galvanized critics across the country and prompted a Justice Department investigation, can affect positive change.
“How do we go from a moment to a movement that creates fundamental change?” Jackson asked the crowd. “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.” (read more)
…”Keep Hope A Lie”
Odd how the “original picture” that ran in the Miami Herald, was quickly doctored to make Trayvon look more childlike, innocent, even “angelic”… “Keep Hope a Lie” indeed.
Pause, and take a good look at what Jesse Jackson is saying again:
“How do we go from a moment to a movement that creates fundamental change?” Jackson asked the crowd. “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.”
What is Jackson really admitting to here ?
“If it’s a moment, we go home”.
Or, put another way: ‘If it’s a moment’ we’re not needed, I serve no purpose, I’m out of work, my presence serves no benefit. My agenda is irrelevant.
“If it’s a movement, we go to war”
Or, put another way: If the movement “race baiting narrative of manipulation” is successful, I can lead a drumbeat of racial division, keep my paychecks, keep my purpose, keep my status, and keep my racial brand alive. “War” ie. by any means necessary,… violent? non-violent?… no matter. What matters more is keeping the appearance of a need.
“There is power in the blood of the innocent”
Or, put another way: There is power for me in convincing you of your victimization. It is far easier, and far more powerful, to drum up an emotional support base, if you can convince people they are victims.
“Keep Hope a Lie”
The mirage, or illusion, of the island of victimization is only possible if you keep people focused on the promised land while standing in the warm comforting water of deception. Especially if the “victims” are not allowed to leave the surf and see the plantation you built on the other side, out of sight.
The long shadows of despair are more easily cast from the dark clouds of the disenfranchised.
The disinfecting sunlight of equality and opportunity are blocked by the same storm clouds of emotion and anger.
Keep Hope A Lie
