At the end of a conference call about the Supreme Court marriage cases on Tuesday, Bishop E.W. Jackson addressed the riots in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, saying that the violence represented President Obama and former Attorney General Eric Holder’s “chickens coming home to roost.”
“The bottom line is this is the president, Holder, Sharpton’s chickens coming home to roost,” said Jackson, who was the 2013 GOP nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia. “These people have been racial demagogues, they have never missed an opportunity to declare how unjust, how unfair the country is and they have sowed this stuff out there. Not that this sentiment wasn’t already out there, mind you, I’m not saying that they created it, but they certainly stoked it, they fanned the flames.”
Claiming that mistreatment of black men by police is “statistically insignificant,” Jackson complained that “nobody want to address” the fact that gangs like the Bloods and the Crips are full of “evil.”
“And the reality is, folks, there are 12 million arrests every year; two-thirds of those arrests are white folks,” he said. “There are 800,000 police officers in this country. Compared to the number of police officers and the number of arrests, as much as the press plays up these particular incidents, they are statistically insignificant. Now that doesn’t mean they’re not significant to the family or the community or to the people to whom these things happen, but they are statistically insignificant. The real dangerous to the average black person is another black person, like a Blood or a Crip or, apparently, they got the Black Guerillas now in Baltimore.”
Noting that he was criticized for making similar comments on Fox News this week, Jackson told his audience, “I know that both you and many others across the country are glad to hear someone like me express an opinion that they consider to be sane.”
