Baptist leader criticizes Trayvon Martin support [View all]

[CreekDog]

Source: Associated Press

(04-14) 08:55 PDT Nashville, Tenn. (AP) --

The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm has condemned the response of many black leaders to the Trayvon Martin case as "shameful."

Some black pastors within the nation's largest Protestant denomination say Richard Land's comments hurt the effort to broaden the faith's appeal beyond its traditional white, Southern base.

Land, who is white, says he stands by his assertion that President Barack Obama, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton are using the case "to try to gin up the black vote."

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/14/national/a085536D87.DTL&tsp=1

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This is part of Richard Land's (Southern Baptist leader) long term effort to obscurity for the Southern Baptist Convention.

Also want to point out that Land is essentially saying that three black people are acting in concert to achieve the same things. See the argument goes that black people do one thing and white people do another --everyone acts according to their race.