“On Fox & Friends Thursday morning, Black Sphere Executive Director and St. Louis resident Kevin Jackson said that African American communities needed to stop “pointing the finger” at police, and instead examine the dynamics of black communities — including “liberalism” — that lead to mistrust of police officers. Jackson reserved particular ire for Al Sharpton, whom he accused of distracting from the larger issues in Ferguson.

“[Sharpton], Barack Obama, and Eric Holder really should have been talking about the bigger issue, which is I think law enforcement and how this all occurred and the type of decay, the moral decay that’s occurring in neighborhoods like this,” Jackson said.

The F&F hosts asked Jackson about a previous comment, in which he criticized black communities for idolizing the reggae artist Snoop Lion over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-guest-sharpton-should-address-moral-decay-of-black-communities-rather-than-blame-cops/