Radio Host David Webb: Al Sharpton Is a 'Racist, Race-Baiter'

(Fox News/"Fox & Friends")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Monday, 11 July 2016 09:04 AM EDT

The Rev. Al Sharpton is a "racist" and "race-baiter" who is "becoming more irrelevant" as Black Lives Matter and a new generation takes over the discussion of race issues in the United States, radio talk show host David Webb said Monday morning, while disagreeing with Sharpton's comments on the National Rifle Association.

"Here's my NRA membership card," Webb told Fox News' "Fox & Friends" programs, showing his own card. "When I did my membership, they didn't ask me if I was black, whether I wanted to belong to the black division. They don't have a requirement based on ethnicity. They focus on the Second Amendment rights of Americans."

Over the weekend, in his weekly address, Sharpton said that both Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, were killed because they had a gun, and demanded to know why the NRA didn't defend the gun rights they had legally.

Further, he wanted to know if NRA President Wayne LaPierre means that the Second Amendment is "for whites only."

"Al Sharpton's irrelevant," Webb shot back Monday. "He needs to have a boogie man. Tawana Brawley was his first boogie woman."

Sharpton's national profile was raised in 1987 when he became involved in the Brawley case. She had claimed she was held captive and raped by several white men, including a New York prosecutor and police officers, but a grand jury determined that Brawley had made up the story.

But Sharpton does "nothing to bring you a solution," Webb said Monday. "Ferguson, he did nothing. He did a press conference. That's Al Sharpton. Now we need to talk about the issues. Alton Sterling did not legally have a gun. That is not an issue."

The Second Amendment, Webb continued, is about protection, and "if you surrender your Second Amendment rights, you relegate yourself to police response time. Whether you're out in a country where there are 30 miles to the nearest law enforcement officer or whether you're in Chicago where it's 30 minutes and the gang bangers and the gun violence is completely through the roof, you need to be able to protect yourself.

"Matter of fact, more blacks, by the way, have had their lives saved by police officers and by their right to protect themselves in these environments."