Actually, no, he wasn’t.
Via Newsbusters:
As singer and liberal activist Harry Belafonte appeared as a guest on Friday’s All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes brought up Civil Rights Movement-era murder victim Emmett Till and wondered if Trayvon Martin’s death would have a similar “catalyzing effect” in a “civil rights struggle.”
While both acknowledged that the circumstances were different, Belafonte lumped in Trayvon Martin as having been “murdered” and observed:
“Although there are different sets of circumstances under which both of these young men were murdered, I think that there is one thing that’s a common thread, and that is the issue of race.
I don’t think either Emmett Till, nor what happened to young Trayvon Martin, would have happened had these young citizens not been citizens of color. So, from that point of view, there is a consistency to the way in which America handles the issue of race.”