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Jesse Jackson: Pimpin' His People

from the Chattanooga Outlook

"I understand the attempt to reach out to these children, but this is an unacceptable surrender, borderlining on disgrace." Jesse Jackson, Mount Holyoke News, February 13, 1997, speaking on the subject of ebonics.

"Stay out the Bushes! Stay out the Bushes!" Jesse Jackson, 2000 Democratic National Convention, campaigning in ebonics for Albert Gore.

If I haven't learned anything else in my lifetime, I've at least learned that the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson is scum. I know that doesn't sound nice, especially coming from a white person, but not all truth is nice. It's simply truth, and truth doesn't keep score of people's feelings.

White people have traditionally been afraid to openly criticize black people. They're afraid that, in these tumultuous times, the slightest slight or negative word towards a black person will induce accusations of racism, incidents of violence, and (the highly-profitable) civil unrest.

Many black "leaders" will take any scrap of this white-introduced negativity and use it as a rallying cry and excuse to gain support so that, ultimately, they can collect a paycheck.

And speaking of "leaders"? Why are there black leaders, at all? If there were white leaders, all hell would break loose. The only ones I know of like to hang people and wear sheets to their meetings. But black leaders (many equally as horrible as their white counterparts) continue on unabated, and without anybody checking up on what they're actually saying and doing.

My favorite black leader and supposed "disciple of Dr. King" is Mr. Jackson. He is simply amazing. His ability to exploit "his people" is second-to-none, and the acceptance and praise he receives doing it is mindboggling.

Jesse Jackson is what the late, great Booker T. Washington would call a "problem profiteer." He must ensure that there is strife and division between the races, or he won't be able to make his mortgage payment, or open another business in the name of "freedom."

And Jackson sure loves freedom. He loves it so much that he will travel to any poor black neighborhood and "preach" to the people that they "are somebody," and that, one day, they will rise up out of the situation they're in and reach the "Promised Land."

I have a question, though. If the people he preaches to already possess the power to do all that, why do they have to bother coming up with the $25-$30,000 that Jesse charges to motivate them?

Jesse is also a proud member of the Democratic Party, and one if its biggest pawns. Despite his earlier comments denouncing the teaching of ebonics, Jackson was more than willing to "dumb it down" in a speech directed towards his target audience during last years Democratic Convention. Al Gore got the black vote. Jesse got the white money.

Jackson is also willing to travel to any volatile situation to strategically have his picture taken, and to be shown "bringing us all together" by building up enough hostility on both sides to push us even farther apart. He also likes to accuse business leaders of racist hiring practices in order to blackmail their companies into starting businesses in inner cities so that he can profit from them. During one of these "benefits," Jackson was able to "pimp" some corporate "ho's" out of $500,000 that went towards opening up a California office for his Rainbow/PUSH coalition. It seems that at the end of Jesse's Rainbow, there truly is a pot of gold; gold that will ensure that he, his wife, his children, his mistress, and her child will have enough money to "keep their on eyes on the prize" for years to come. What that prize is, though, I'm not sure even Jesse knows anymore.

If you would like to hire Jesse to speak at your event, you can book him by contacting the Santa Barbara Speakers Bureau at (805) 682-7474 or on the web at www.speakingpros.com. He can talk about social issues, civil rights, education, or democracy, and for the right money, might even make some balloon animals for your kids! And if he's busy, don't fret. The firm also handles Jeff Foxworthy and Joe Piscopo.

Posted by colrus at April 1, 2001 04:04 PM | TrackBack