Via Breitbart:

Many are asking questions about the silence from civil right “leaders” such as Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton about the recent beating of a white student by three black classmates on a Florida school bus, given their role in turning the Trayvon Martin case into a national civil rights controversy. I caught up with Rev. Jackson at Chicago’s annual Bud Billiken Back-to-School Parade on Saturday.

Here was Jackson’s full, unedited response:

Breitbart News: Rev. Jackson, can you comment on the recent beating that happened between three black kids that beat up the kid on a school bus? Does black leadership have a responsibility to say something about that kind of violence?

Jackson: People who care should speak to it. I was in Africa until yesterday, I heard about it. We are trying to make contact with the family of the kid because we should discourage people attacking people, whether it’s black, white, white, black, black, that people should stop attacking people. We must learn to live together respectfully in a civilized way. And it becomes white, black, black white, it just makes matters worse, it does not make matters better.

Breitbart News: The question is based on the Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman case. That case was brought into the national arena as a very racially divisive case, as a white on black crime.

Jackson: It’s hard to make a comparison, in one case a man was unarmed, killed by another man, last year a hundred and thirty five blacks were killed, black men, unarmed, killed by vigilantes, police, killed by security guards, so whether it’s the case of Oakland, California, or the case in New York, it’s just too much of it. Wherever it occurs, it must always be discouraged; there must be a deterrent from it occurring. We must urge people to live in civilized ways.

I was curious about the “statistic” that Jackson quoted about 135 unarmed black men being killed by “vigilantes, security guards and police”:

The unique terminology and number is taken from a “report” called “Operation Ghetto Storm” which purports to report on “extrajudicial” or “state-sanctioned” killings by “vigilantes, security guards and police”.

The Report exposes how every 28 hours someone inside the United States, employed or protected by the U.S. government kills a Black child, woman or man.

These state-sanctioned killings are the casualties of what we call “Operation Ghetto Storm,” a perpetual war to invade, occupy and pacify Black communities– much like the U.S. invades and occupies the Middle East.

“Let your motto be resistance”, it proclaims.

Of course, the case of Trayvon Martin, cited in the report, was hardly “extrajudicial” or “state-sanctioned”, which, just with the one case, puts paid to the reliability of the report. Obviously, the facts of the case, i.e. Trayvon beating George Zimmerman’s head in, are also nowhere in the report.

The report promotes a conspiratorial “evil white supremacists wanting to invade our communities” tact. The dead, including Trayvon, are variously described as “lynched”, “martyrs” or “executed”.

Here’s a sample from the report:

-Ja’Quares Cortez Walker, “Little Tez”, age 13
A middle school student, Walker covered his face with his t-shirt, pointed a pistol at the driver of a Lexus SUV and attempted a carjacking. The 35-year old white male driver shot him multiple times.

-Queniya Tykia Shelton, age 7
Officers observed Shelton’s mother, Errika Dominique Shelton, driving “erratically”(following too close or making improper lane change.) When she noticed police were following her, she allegedly accelerated. Police chased her at speeds up to 100 MPH. When she lost control of the car and crashed, her daughter, Queniya, was ejected and died from her injuries.

Perhaps someone needs to ask Jesse Jackson, does he truly believe that the government is invading black communities to kill black men, as this report contends?