Sharpton: If You Want Black Men Taking Care of Their Families, Give Them Training, Jobs

TODD: "Right. And I want to ask you on this issue here, we're talking about Mr. Garner having to sell single cigarettes to survive, to make a living. Do you need to be focusing your efforts also on this economic problem?"
SHARPTON: "Absolutely, and we do."
TODD: "That a lot of African American communities feel as if a hopelessness on the economic front?"
SHARPTON: "We do. Which is why we aggressively National Action Network and the civil rights community supported the jobs bill, support infrastructure development, because we want to challenge men in our community to say, 'You've got to stand up and you've got to be responsible.' They need jobs. They need training. So one hand we can't expand the public sector for jobs. And another hand, they say, 'Well, we have been harassed and treated differently by law enforcement.' So we've got to strike a balance that is not in our power to do, which is why we're going to Congress to make that possible. You can't kill jobs bill and infrastructure and then tell men to take care of their family. You can't have it both ways."