Obama: “Jena 6 deserve mantle of Rosa Parks”
So much for being a “uniter”. We can’t let the nation forget Obama’s disgusting pandering during the Jena 6 debacle: Here’s more:
(2007-09-21) — Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, today said the “Jena 6” — a half dozen black teenagers arrested last year in the beating of a white teenager — “have earned the mantle of Rosa Parks, and Americans should not turn a blind eye to the injustice of their cause.”
“If Rosa Parks were alive today,” Sen. Obama said, “and if Rosa Parks gathered her posse and beat the stuffing out of a white boy and got charged with attempted murder, we would take to the streets just as we have for the Jena 6. The historical parallels are stunningly obvious. This is the most horrifying civil rights violation of our day.”
Meanwhile, the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson compared the Jena 6 to those who participated in lunch counter sit-ins to protest “separate but equal” accommodations in the South in the early 1960s.
“We need to think of the Jena 6 as intelligent, idealistic young men,” said the Rev. Sharpton, “like those who risked it all to sit down in white sections of restaurants and who then pounded the cherry syrup out of the soda jerk. Is it right to charge such freedom fighters with a violent crime? You be the judge.”
The Rev. Jackson added that, “Somewhere in heaven, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is looking down on us and smiling to see the legacy of his non-violent protest movement as we stand up for the rights of these persecuted boys.”
Yeah Al, sitting at a lunch counter is the same as beating an innocent student to a pulp.