MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Monday on “The Read Out” that President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. He said the invitation to the box seats was insulting and showed the administration's views on black people. As an animal. ”
“It's amazing to me that someone would suffocate an unarmed man with mental health issues and act like he was a hero,” Sharpton said. The clear message is that you are giving legitimacy to vigilante activity, which can make others feel like they can take the law into their own hands. ”
“The jury must accept the verdict of the jury, but the jury must accept the verdict of the jury, but it does not recognize that a person who has killed an unarmed person, who has not physically assaulted anyone, who has never threatened anyone, is a folk hero. He said he is what makes him a political star. He acts unruly. He makes people uncomfortable. It was the president who took him into the president-elect's box at the Army-Navy game in honor of the man who put him in this chokehold that killed him and caused his death. It's to honor a president who was born to George Floyd. He didn't say a single word of comfort to the victims' families when Eller woke up or when Ahmaud Arbery happened, but his only claim to fame is suffocation. It would turn this man into an unarmed, mentally challenged man. That transcends race. It should be an insult to all Americans. Would the reaction be the same if the races were reversed? I think Donald Trump is clearly sending a racist message. I think they're happy with that. That's scary.”
He added: “You have to ask yourself, is that an intentional signal?” This is the same Donald Trump who claimed that black men would vote for him, but look at what he did to a homeless black man, what Penny did to a homeless black man with mental health issues. Please. ”
Sharpton added, “Let's not forget that when J.D. Vance was a senator, he accused black Haitians of eating people's pets in a city in Ohio. So he called us animals. “They see it as something less than human,” he added.
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