{"id":11636,"date":"2012-03-26T12:51:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=11636"},"modified":"2012-03-26T12:51:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T16:51:27","slug":"newt-gingrich-obamas-trayvon-martin-statement-disgraceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/03\/newt-gingrich-obamas-trayvon-martin-statement-disgraceful\/","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich: Obama&#8217;s Trayvon Martin Statement &#8216;Disgraceful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/s-gingrich-trayvon-martin-large.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11637\" title=\"Santorum And Gingrich Address Gulf Coast Energy Summit\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/s-gingrich-trayvon-martin-large.jpg?resize=260%2C190\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><em><strong>Newt Gingrich outright denies the murder of Trayvon Martin had anything to do with race or racism in the United States.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich slammed Barack Obama on Friday, saying the president&#8217;s remarks about the fatal February shooting of Trayvon Martin were<\/span><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/nationaljournal.com\/2012-presidential-campaign\/gingrich-calls-obama-comments-on-trayvon-martin-shooting-disgraceful--20120323\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">&#8220;disgraceful.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">President Barack Obama addressed Martin&#8217;s death during a Rose Garden appearance earlier Friday, framing the tragedy in personal terms by saying,<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/23\/obama-trayvon-martin_n_1375083.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">&#8220;If I had a son, he&#8217;d look like Trayvon.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">Gingrich<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/03\/gingrich-calls-obamas-trayvon-martin-remarks-disgraceful\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">responded to Obama&#8217;s remarks<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">during a &#8220;Hannity Radio&#8221; interview:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">What the president said, in a sense, is disgraceful. It\u2019s not a question of who that young man looked like. Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Is the president suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it didn\u2019t look like him. That\u2019s just nonsense dividing this country up. It is a tragedy this young man was shot. It would have been a tragedy if he had been Puerto Rican or Cuban or if he had been white or if he had been Asian American of if he\u2019d been a Native American. At some point, we ought to talk about being Americans. When things go wrong to an American, it is sad for all Americans. Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Gingrich&#8217;s comments came amid<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/news\/trayvon-martin\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">boiling public outrage<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">over the death of Martin &#8212; an unarmed, 17-year-old African American shot by a volunteer neighborhood watchman. The former House speaker commented on the shooting Thursday during<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/23\/newt-gingrich-trayvon-martin_n_1375246.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">an interview with CNN&#8217;s Piers Morgan<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000;\">, calling it a &#8220;tragedy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/23\/newt-gingrich-trayvon-martin-barack-obama_n_1376659.html?1332554093\">Fuente<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newt Gingrich outright denies the murder of Trayvon Martin had anything to do with race or racism in the United States. 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