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Add to FavoritesReverend Jesse Jackson does represent the needs of most African-Americans. As no one can quite represent the needs of an entire Universe because of varied ideas and thoughts, it is not surprising that some feel he does not and they are right to think that way.
The Reverend's belief about society and the culture does not necessarily have to suit everyone because we cannot all have the same attitude and thoughts to reality.
For example, no one wants to be a part of the slave trading, but then, one might find the bizarre personality who has a thing about the slave trading. Although no one has ever spoken it loudly that 'I will sell you into slave trade again'.
That would of course be outrageous.
Reverend Jesse Jackson tries to soothe the pain of African-Americans, tries to promote togetherness but strangely enough not everyone is interested for varied reasons.
The Reverend encourages people to live together rather than hold resentment, hate and malice. He cannot possibly believe that an African could have sold his own flesh and blood at the time to slavery, no one can believe it but sadly, it did happen many years back.
Reverend Jackson feels that by bringing the African-American together, there will be peace, there will be harmony and slave trade will never happen again. Sadly, no one can be responsible for anyone who decides to become a slave anyway , for any reason at all. It's like trying to stop pornography in any way at all, whereas, pornography can only disappear naturally because there is no one interested in patronizing it. And really, where there is no more moist, no one wants to get involved nor share their own moistened life.
So, for slave trade thoughts and violence to stop on the streets, something natural can be the only way out. We can all try to stop the killings, theft and deceit on the streets, but might find that people turn a deaf ear to it. However, something out there always put the stop to it and that is where Reverend Jackson has been lecturing and advising his fellow African-American's.
R eally, it is a thing of shame for another black person to have sold another human to be milked aggressively and tortured into horrible slavery. It is a shock to everyone and that is why the Reverend encourages people all over the world to live in harmony and treat each other as brothers and sisters.
But then, who is your brother or sister because really, someone once sold his mother, brother and sister for a few cash although some of these people later were forced into slavery themselves.
Reverend Jesse Jackson helps us to understand that any breathing human is our brother and sister. He wants guns off the streets and this is not easy at all. People feel that it is best to have guns, but carrying guns might not be the best way to resolve problems. The Reverend helps us to see that there are many other ways of handling problems for good. But what are they and do we care? One can take notice by listening to ideas by Reverend Jackson at Rainbow Push Radio and the website.
http://www.rainbowpu sh.org
He encourages people to put their families in first place so that they can see the way to help others. This would make sense because when you put your own flesh and blood in first place, you will not be able to go out there and think of even selling them. This idea helps to put the idea that Africans are cannibals or/and rapists in place. Everyone is important and we can all love each other from the bottom of our hearts. When we feed our own families like we would feed ourselves, we will feed the birds later, not the other way round. After all, birds can feed themselves.
We are all encouraged all over the world to see each other as beautiful, not something to eat and destroy. For example, if you and I get hungry, we get fresh meat, fresh fish or fresh lobsters to eat rather than become cannibals. We are encouraged to love our babies, our unborn babies, our children and avoid pointing a finger here and a finger there about whose fault it is that African's were sold for meat.
Being the strong speaker and personality that Reverend Jesse Jackson is, he helps us to see that working for our livelihood helps significantly in avoiding violence and theft. But can anyone listen to the Reverend as he sings his security measures to us all? Will man eat only cow meat and not his mother or brother? Who will listen? Who cares? Does anyone care at all? Will the fear of being sold by anyone at all keep us all shaking and frightened? When are we ever going to trust ourselves? Will the fear of an African frighten us so much so we run miles away because we are so scared of being fished into slave trade? Let us learn from deep down our hearts and listen to the Reverend when he speaks, because there is always something to learn from it.
Most people believe that when they want to have sex, they get married and stay there, now, tagging an African as a rapist is really wrong. Most people plan to marry and get married. They don't go out there to rape people and should avoid pointing fingers at anyone. If someone tries to touch you, go to the cops and bury it there. It is unfair to walk about the street and you sniff that you are being stared at because you are a rapist, thus, making such a black person bow to the floor in shame and embarrassment when really, they have done nothing wrong.
Reverend Jesse Jackson is a very nice man and attending some of his well prepared seminars and conferences should help us all avoid racism. No one is a freaking nigger. I am not a nigger, you are not a nigger. I am beautiful and so are you. I should be able to go into a shop and buy fitting clothing and so should you, without someone sniping secretly, calling you a nigger! You are a breathing human with a heart not a nigger and you should be able to stand up and defend that.
Africans who come to the western world have not betrayed their own countries and they are not promoting a slave trade taste by working with the United Nations or anywhere like that. In fact, they use it to benefit their own countries that I think are in progress. We must try to watch our tongues and learn to love and hug each other in truth.
I don't know of any African at this time that will live his or her house in Africa to travel all that way for money that is not even sufficient. People come to work here and should not be made to feel shame. When people see an African writing for CNN or Fox News or a big white media, they automatically start to call them names Oh you freaking nigger, what are you up to again?'
I should be able to work in White House and wine and dine with Vice-President Cheney and his wife without someone insinuating that I am up to something. Perhaps I want to sell Africans. If I wanted to sell an African, I don't think that they will want to be sold, in any case. Why would anyone want to come so low and so stupid in this fast modern world of technology where everyone is thinking of just themselves, anyway!
Now, people must let go, they must let the slave trade leave their hearts. That is gone now. It has gone forever, it will never come back, it has driven away and into insignificance. It is no longer real, stop calling people names and let them try to survive. I am as beautiful and as smart as anybody else.
Let money come after love. Let love lead the way, let love defend us and be our savior, let love show our true colors so that we can all be respected for who we really are and not what we are not.
As Reverend Jesse Jackson will always say, let us be as colorful as the rainbow' and we will see only our own problems and resolve them, then, we can be able to put those weapons of mass destruction, in place.
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The "Reverend" dropped out of seminary before the end of his first year. Much to the chagrin and ire of members of Chicago's Baptist clergy, he was later "ordained" by a fellow Baptist preacher who circumvented and ignored many of the prerequisites necessary for ordination. African American clergy and professionals in the Chicago area soon learned, however, that criticism of the "Reverend" was unwise.
Mr. Jackson held close ties to the "Black P Stone Nation" street gang in Chicago, and speaking out against him often brought violent repercussions. Black journalists were hounded and attacked if they dared publish exposes of Mr. Jackson's extortion schemes, or even his questionable use of government funds he acquired for alleged "educational purposes". Members of the gang would often pose as "demonstrators" in support of Rainbow/Push boycotts at Chicago businesses. Their grievances and presence vanished after the business owners wrote checks to any of Mr. Jackson's "non-profit" entities. The gang was later dismantled by the Illinois Attorney General; various members were convicted of murder, extortion, racketeering, and drug dealing. Most of these infractions were not committed in conjunction with Jesse Jackson's activities, but for a season Mr. Jackson used the gang when he needed an imposing physical presence to press his demands.
The list of Jesse Jackson's extortion, misuse of federal funds, influence peddling, and outright theft spans many decades. His reputation in Africa is atrocious. His support for the bloodthirsty Liberian President Charles Taylor during the massacre and torture of women and children near the diamond fields of Sierra Leone, and his embarrassing intrusion into South Africa's politics have left him unwelcome in many parts of the African continent. He doesn't represent the needs of African Americans; he represents the concerns of Jesse Jackson and the small circle of business associates who are willing to donate large sums of money to his front organizations.
At least two corporations have stood up to Jesse Jackson's politics of extortion. T.J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor in the Silicon Valley was one. When accused by Jackson of racial bias in hiring practices he invited Mr. Jackson to debate his company's employment record publicly. Four invitations were offered. Four times he received no response. Anheuser-Busch merely presented Jesse Jackson with a dossier containing his past questionable activities at a negotiating session, and he walked out of the meeting without a word. Most companies, however, would not refute his charges. To do so would incur the "Racist" label.
The Teflon Reverend's tactics are akin to the Clinton's, i.e. tell lies and accuse your opponents of lying. Most individuals and commercial entities knuckle under to his flagrant misrepresentations and just pay up or roll over. The solution is for people to stand up to him and weather his vicious secondary onslaughts, meanwhile, steadfastly confronting him with the truth of their innocence and his checkered past.
Further information can be found in Kenneth Timmerman's book
Shakedown- Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson. It's an excellent book, replete with documentation.
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