The Rev. Jesse Jackson has called to boycott the “apartheid state” of Florida if the Department of Justice does not lodge a civil rights case against George Zimmerman.
“Trayvon is a symbol of a deeper malady,” the reverend said in a CNN interview Thursday.
“No doubt, the inclination is to boycott Florida, stop conventions, to isolate Florida as a kind of apartheid state” if the DOJ does not act, Jackson said.
Jackson charged that homicides against blacks have tripled since stand your ground laws were put in place in Florida. The Daily Caller reported Tuesday that the law actually benefits blacks in the state disproportionately, saying blacks made about a third of Florida’s total stand your ground claims in homicide cases, a rate nearly double the black percentage of the state’s population.
“The majority of those claims have been successful, a success rate that exceeds that for Florida whites,” the Daily Caller said.
• Jessica Chasmar can be reached at jchasmar@washingtontimes.com.
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