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“Civil Rights Leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Dead At 84“
Once upon a very long time ago, I thought I respected this guy.
Then I paid attention to his actions.
I’ll let St Peter decide which way he goes.
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Duvall crossed over too. This one is bothersome.
Jesse? WGAF???? The worlds better in his absence.
Jackson, in my opinion, made a living race baiting. He was a puppet of evil lbj. They came together in the days after President Kennedy’s assassination. From 1963 to 1965, their coordination helped to push forward the landmark great society laws that destroyed the American black family. .
LBJ:
“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppitiness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”
[Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957]
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years”
[discussing The Great Society, circa 1964]
DT-Thanks.
History, when told in the light of truth, is tough.
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”–Abraham Lincoln
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were instrumental in making the phrase “African American” the definition for black people. This happened in the early 90’s. Obama was born in 1961 and the digital birth certificate that contained multiple errors categorized him as “African American.” Whoops. In 1961 he would have been labeled a “Negro.” It said his father was born in Kenya which wasn’t named that until 1964. The country at the time was known as the British Protectorate of East Africa… no mention of “Kenya” yet. Something shady going on around here.
I have plenty of my own faults but I will let Jesse be judged by Him alone.
I did go see him speak once, many years ago. There were not many white folks there. He got the young audience to start repeating after him on encouraging statements. Then he got to one line where he wanted everyone to repeat where he said something like “I will study and do my homework for three hours every night”, and the young audience laughed. They thought it was a punch line, but it was not, of course. The youth of that crowd was doomed by their own lifestyle. He was trying to correct, and that effort fell flat.
I believe Bill Cosby’s troubles began when he tried to do the same thing in regard to changing lifestyles. He dared blame black problems on black people and that’s not allowed. Bill had other issues, fairly applied or not, that allowed his fate to be different than Jackson’s.
Jesse Jackson had the “it” required of all effective public speakers. I believe that in his efforts to improve “his people”, he added to the decisiveness of today. I do recall that when he had a chance to be mayor of DC (’82? ’84?), he thought the position beneath him. As I stated, I’ll let St Peter decide his fate; I could not tell what was in Jackson’s soul.
Now, Al Sharpton is a different issue.