[Cleveland Mayor Frank] Jackson said during an Oct. 8 interview on The Outlaws Radio Show that campaigners are taking advantage of Black suffering to advance their own political goals.
“Those people who have a certain political philosophy, they use the legitimate issue of the oppressed — and in this case Black people — to promote their politics, not to assist the oppressed. They just use the oppressed for their own benefit,” Jackson said during the interview. “Tragedy pimps, that’s what they are. They take our tragedy and they pimp it to their own benefit, as if they care. Get out of my face.”
Jackson didn’t say who specifically among the measure’s backers fit that description. The mayor’s office did not respond to a request for clarification.
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