"Are we sending a signal that if you're black in this country and you defend your home, that's different than if you're white?" he asked.
Sharpton contrasted White with Bernhard Goetz, who was celebrated as a "subway vigilante" after shooting four black youths who he thought were trying to rob him in 1984.
Goetz was acquitted of major charges by a predominantly white jury and did just 250 days in jail on a weapons charge.
"Here's someone who came to someone's house to do harm and he defended himself," Sharpton said of White. "Why is Goetz a society hero and John White is a demon?"
Perhaps a better question, Rev. Al? Why do you now advocate armed defense, whereas before,your position on right to carry was "We'd be living in a state of terror"?
Racial posturing aside, people like me aren't the ones calling for disarming "the community" and continuing the daily cycle of terror. Hustlers like you are.
[Via Illspirit]