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Is it possible for something to gain national attention about a Black person without Jesse Jackson showing up?

Why is it that every time there is a big news story about anyone black that Jesse Jackson shows up on camera? If I were Black this would embarrass me. Surely you can be Black and have a different minister. When oh when will a Black person ever stand up and say "Jesse Jackson just because we have the same color skin does not mean you are my friend and I want you here."? What if every time there was any story about a white person Rev. Rick Warren showed up? I mean why doesn't he? He is White and a minister. Shouldn't we White people have an obligatory minister for our race also?

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    Jesse Jackson is an anti-semite!!

    He goes on and on about "racial equality" and "fairness"...but he referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in January 1984 during a conversation with Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman. Jackson at first denied the remarks, then accused Jews of conspiring to defeat him. When he finally did acknowledge that it was wrong to use the term, he said he did so in private to a reporter.[29] Finally, Jackson apologized during a speech before national Jewish leaders in a Manchester, New Hampshire synagogue, but continuing suspicions have led to an enduring split between Jackson and many Jews.[29]

    Among Jackson's other remarks were that Richard Nixon was less attentive to poverty in the U.S. because "four out of five [of Nixon's top advisors] are German Jews and their priorities are on Europe and Asia"; that he was "sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust"; and that there are "very few Jewish reporters that have the capacity to be objective about Arab affairs". In 1979, Jackson said on a trip to the Middle East that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was a "terrorist," and Israel was a "theocracy."[30] Jackson has since apologized for at least some of these remarks and was later invited to speak in support of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.

  • 1 decade ago

    He only shows up on white owned new stations to make the black community look bad. His days where over when MLK was taken away.

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