Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, has called the likes of Rev. Al Sharpton, Rev. Jesse Jackson and President Barack Obama “shameful” in regards to the Trayvon Martin case.
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According to the Washington Post, Land says he stands by his assertion that President Barack Obama “poured gasoline on the racialist fires” when he addressed Trayvon’s slaying, and that Obama, Jackson and Sharpton have used the case “to try to gin up the black vote for an African American president who is in deep, deep, deep trouble for re-election.”
Land said he has no regrets about his remarks. He said he understands why the case has touched a nerve among black leaders, but he also defended the idea that people are justified in seeing young black men as threatening:
“A black man is “statistically more likely to do you harm than a white man.” Is it tragic that people react that way? Yes. Is it unfair? Yes? But it is understandable.”
The comments come as the Southern Baptist Convention is trying hard to diversify its membership and distance itself from a past that includes support of slavery and segregation.
Land made the comments about Sharpton, Jackson and Obama during his weekly radio show.
On his radio show, Land accused Obama of shamefully exploiting Martin’s death and said Jackson and Sharpton, whom he called “racial ambulance chasers,” were guilty of the same.
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