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SBC's Land: Outrage over Trayvon Being Exploited
The Southern Baptist Convention?s Richard Land said on his radio show Friday that black leaders are exploiting the Trayvon Martin shooting death in Florida for political gain, the Associated Baptist Press first reported.
Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, is the denomination?s top public-policy spokesman and made the allegation on his radio show Saturday, ABP reported.
He said Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are creating a ?mob mentality,? and President Obama used the incident for political gain when he said, if he had a son, that son would look like Martin.
?He put the presidential spotlight on Trayvon Martin?s death and thereby bolstered the burgeoning protest,? the ABP quoted Land as saying. ?I believe Mr. Obama?s comments were misguided, and I think they were harmful. No one knows what his son would look like. The statement was meant as a sign of racial solidarity. Martin is black, so by extension Mr. Obama shares the victim?s racial identity.?
Martin, 17, was shot and killed Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman, who claimed he was being attacked. Martin had an iced tea and Skittles candy on him.
The Southern Baptists have spent the last couple of years attempting to heal wounds with the African-American community over slavery, even considering a name change to help put the past behind them.
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