Some elements of the progressive movement are using the legitimate protests in Ferguson, Missouri to bring back minorities and young people to their cause, says Niger Innis, executive director of TheTeaParty.net and national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality.
"What happens when the circus … the paid protesters, the anarchists, the activists, the card-carrying zealots that are out there, the Occupy Wall Street crowd that has come into Ferguson — what happens when they leave town?" Innis asked Wednesday on Fox News Channel's
"Your World with Neil Cavuto."
After the burning of buildings and other damage, what is left will be an "economic wasteland," Innis said.
The legitimate concerns of young minorities in the area of fewer job choices and educational opportunities won't be addressed by the mob, he said. With fewer businesses left to hire people, those young, black people will be worse off, not better, he said.
Innis said he doesn't want to sound conspiratorial, but added that he believes that elements within the progressive movement saw the decreased turnout in Latino communities and a lack of enthusiasm in some black communities as a big reason Republicans won in this year's midterms.
Some Republicans, such as Ohio Gov. John Kasich, garnered a respectable percentage of the black vote, Innis noted.
"These progressives said we've got to do something to inspire and to revive the kind of galvanized support that we've had from these groups before," Innis said.
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