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What's your point?
I don't like him either but has he done anything specific that's irked you?
As far as what he does, well, he creates a perceived need, fills it and is able to somehow get a contribution or two out of the deal. I don't understand who in the world gives this idiot a nickel, but obviously someone must.
Sharpton is another one that has no obvious means of support but never lacks $$$ for demonstrations and such. I think he just sits by his phone and waits for someone to call for his assistance. How he swings a buck out to the deal is a mystery. He doesn't even have a congregation to my knowledge. Some "Reverend."
I don't like him either but has he done anything specific that's irked you?
As far as what he does, well, he creates a perceived need, fills it and is able to somehow get a contribution or two out of the deal. I don't understand who in the world gives this idiot a nickel, but obviously someone must.
Sharpton is another one that has no obvious means of support but never lacks $$$ for demonstrations and such. I think he just sits by his phone and waits for someone to call for his assistance. How he swings a buck out to the deal is a mystery. He doesn't even have a congregation to my knowledge. Some "Reverend."
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He's an ordained minister, leader of the Rainbow Coalition, and a public speaker.
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I can't verify this so?Was told that he goes to companys and asked for money and wil not make trouble for them.Most find it cheaper to contribute.
If this is trus I don't know so take with a grain of salt.Sounds right to me.
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If this is trus I don't know so take with a grain of salt.Sounds right to me.
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Age and deceit will overcome youth and speed.
I'm old and deceitful.
beemerb,
Sounds like an urban legend. Jackson, like North and others, makes his money mainly from public speaking. It's a juicy racket to get into, anywhere from $3000 to $5000 or more per appearance. It adds up fast.
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Sounds like an urban legend. Jackson, like North and others, makes his money mainly from public speaking. It's a juicy racket to get into, anywhere from $3000 to $5000 or more per appearance. It adds up fast.
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"Get yourself a Lorcin and lose that nickel plated sissy pistol."
He raises a big stink when anyone who is an "African American" is a bad guy and gets hurt,shot, caught, accused etc. He is no better than the great rev. Al Sharpton. I don't give a flyin' f@#$ if your an albino or a charcoal brickette. You get what you deserve. By the way, my very best friend is a black, africanamerican, negro (all of which he calls himself) who EARNED a purple heart in vietnam. The great rev. J is nothing but an idiot who uses race as aplatform for his furtherment in politics. EVERY race has its bad apples, get over it!!! I wish JJ would just shut up and go away!!!
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shhh don't tell anyone, but really he is Dr. Seuss 
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Race Baitor, Poverty Pimp. A man of the cloth rather than being a man of God.
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The day Jackson and Sharpton are forced to go out and get real jobs will be a happy day for America and all the peoples therein.
I am mystified that the black community allows these social vultures to continue to feed off of it. IMHO they feed on the injured and destitute just like any drug dealer, prostitute, or mugger. The only difference is that the disease they spread isn't physical but just as addictive and injuring.
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I am mystified that the black community allows these social vultures to continue to feed off of it. IMHO they feed on the injured and destitute just like any drug dealer, prostitute, or mugger. The only difference is that the disease they spread isn't physical but just as addictive and injuring.
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Those who use arms well cultivate the Way and keep the rules.Thus they can govern in such a way as to prevail over the corrupt- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
This may be relevant:
can be found @ http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson10.html
The Evil Jesse Jackson
by William L. Anderson
In the days leading up to the execution of the obviously guilty Gary Graham in Texas, Jesse Jackson seemed to be everywhere, at least where a television camera was present. The condemned prisoner, he told the assembled sympathetic media, was a modern figure of Jesus Christ. Gov. George Bush of Texas, who could not legally have stopped the execution even if he had wished to do so, was likened to Pontius Pilate.
This is not the first time Jackson has used the analogy of characters from the Bible to make political points. During the presidential election of 1992, Jackson, who was stumping for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, condemned the anti-abortion beliefs of Vice President Dan Quayle and compared him to King Herod. Herod, as St. Matthew wrote in his Gospel, ordered all of the boys under age two living in and near Bethlehem to be killed in order to keep the Messiah from occupying Herod’s throng.
Of course, one is bewildered by this comparison. Quayle, after all, supported the right of unborn children not to be torn apart in their mothers’ wombs or be put to death immediately upon birth (all in the name of "choice"). Therefore, it seems strange to compare him with someone who did what Jackson and his supporters believe to be moral: kill babies. However, no media pundits questioned Jackson’s faulty biblical exegesis, which is not surprising, since few media personalities even read the Bible.
Jesse Jackson has made a career of skirting media scrutiny – as well as investigation from those charged with enforcing the law. Only twice did his freelance career seem to be even temporarily derailed. The first time was when he embraced Yassir Arafat in 1979 and compared the plight of modern Palestinians to the sufferings of Jews during the World War II holocaust. The second time came in 1984 during Jackson’s pathetic campaign to receive the Democratic Party nomination for president. (The incompetent Walter Mondale beat him in 1984 and the even more pathetic Michael Dukkakis topped him in 1988.)
Before visiting New York City, Jackson on numerous occasions called the place "Hymietown" in an obvious reference to the Jews who lived there. When Juan Williams, then of the Washington Post, reported the candidate’s open lack of civility toward Jews, the campaign went into an uproar. (Williams had even buried Jackson’s slurs well into the story, so even then Jackson was receiving preferential treatment.) At first, Jackson did what most politicians do when caught with their hands in the cookie jar: he lied.
Much later, after his supporters had made threats upon Williams’s life (Williams is black and was accused, of course, of "betraying his race"), Jackson gave a tearful apology to a carefully-picked Jewish audience. Had a white candidate done the same thing (or done something similar, like referring to a city dominated by blacks as "niggertown"), his career would have been over. Jackson is judged by a lower standard, however, and he survived his moniker as "the moral voice of America."
The 1984 campaign, however, revealed something else about Jackson. Not only does he mangle the Holy Scriptures and use racial epithets against minority groups, he is also quite stingy. According to his 1983 tax returns, Jackson and his wife earned $115,000. The "moral voice of America" gave a mere $500 to churches and charities.
That Jackson was making six figures at a time when about two percent of Americans made that kind of money makes one wonder how a person who jets from one television camera to another earns his high pay. An incident in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1988 demonstrated how he does make a living – and also showed once again his absolutely cynical worldview.
In 1988, DuPont was make a major expansion at its plant in Chattanooga and had hired the Daniel Corporation of Greenville, South Carolina, to do its construction. Daniel, as veterans of the old "Civil Rights Movement" might recall, had a CEO who spoke out against racism and segregation in the early 1960s, long before it was popular to do so nearly anywhere in the country. In fact, Daniel had made a strong – and voluntary – effort to hire blacks and other minorities outside any mandates from the federal government.
However, Daniel is also non-union and that enraged the construction unions in Chattanooga, which still were feeling the pinch after the Tennessee Valley Authority had stopped major construction projects. The trade unions in Chattanooga have had a long history of excluding blacks from the skilled trades. In fact, one could easily argue that the Ku Klux Klan could never have done the harm to blacks that the unions had done in Chattanooga.
The Chattanooga unions’ racist history did not keep Jackson from being the featured speaker at a union rally condemning Daniel. Keep in mind that Daniel had not locked any local workers out of the project. However, Daniel had specifically said it would not work with the local unions, and that was enough to make the carpenters and plumbers cheer when Jesse poured it on.
The Teamsters Union underwrote the entire sordid affair. Jackson had his money (and a free birthday party thrown for him by the unions) and he was able to preen on camera before the worshipful local media.
There was one more thing. The plant manager of the Chattanooga plant at that time was the only black plant manager in the entire DuPont system. So much for Jackson championing real accomplishments by blacks.
Jackson’s base organization is called People United to Save Humanity, or Operation PUSH. The way that PUSH earns much of its income is through government grants and from extorting money from businesses. I say extortion because businesses that fail to deliver what Jackson asks from them quickly find themselves vilified in the press as being racist. It is hard to know how effective the organization has been at saving humanity, but it is a good fund raising tool to keep Jackson in a six-figure income.
About 20 years ago, federal auditors found numerous irregularities in PUSH’s financial statements. To put it mildly, the organization’s bookkeeping was a shambles and millions of dollars had disappeared without any accounting for them. While no one could directly accuse Jackson of criminal wrongdoing in the matter, it is clear that had Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University or Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network engaged in such shenanigans, someone would have gone to prison and the reputations of those men would have been ruined. However, no one at PUSH was prosecuted and the federal tax monies continue to pour into Jackson’s organization – and Jackson’s pocket.
It is safe to say that someone like Jesse Jackson could not make the kind of money he makes in a truly free society. Jackson’s income is a combination of speaking fees and payments from PUSH. As we have seen, PUSH is funded and protected by the federal government. His union speaking fees come from groups that are protected by government and actively lobby politicians to limit the freedom of others. Were it not for his clout with the leftist news media, that protects him at every turn, he would never receive an invitation to speak at any business gathering. As it is, he receives huge fees for speaking before business groups, even as he champions socialism and the welfare/warfare state.
In short, Jesse Jackson is the product not of a free society or a free market, but rather of a society that abandoned real freedom long ago. One could liken Jackson’s ubiquitous presence to the canary in the coal mine. (As long as the canary lived, miners knew there was no threat from deadly methane gas. However, if the canary died, it was time to leave.) As long as Jackson thrives, it is a reminder to the rest of us that the leviathan state is still at work. The canary has long since been dead.
July 3, 2000
William L. Anderson, Ph.D., is assistant professor of economics at North Greenville College in Tigerville, South Carolina. He is an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute
can be found @ http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson10.html
The Evil Jesse Jackson
by William L. Anderson
In the days leading up to the execution of the obviously guilty Gary Graham in Texas, Jesse Jackson seemed to be everywhere, at least where a television camera was present. The condemned prisoner, he told the assembled sympathetic media, was a modern figure of Jesus Christ. Gov. George Bush of Texas, who could not legally have stopped the execution even if he had wished to do so, was likened to Pontius Pilate.
This is not the first time Jackson has used the analogy of characters from the Bible to make political points. During the presidential election of 1992, Jackson, who was stumping for Bill Clinton and Al Gore, condemned the anti-abortion beliefs of Vice President Dan Quayle and compared him to King Herod. Herod, as St. Matthew wrote in his Gospel, ordered all of the boys under age two living in and near Bethlehem to be killed in order to keep the Messiah from occupying Herod’s throng.
Of course, one is bewildered by this comparison. Quayle, after all, supported the right of unborn children not to be torn apart in their mothers’ wombs or be put to death immediately upon birth (all in the name of "choice"). Therefore, it seems strange to compare him with someone who did what Jackson and his supporters believe to be moral: kill babies. However, no media pundits questioned Jackson’s faulty biblical exegesis, which is not surprising, since few media personalities even read the Bible.
Jesse Jackson has made a career of skirting media scrutiny – as well as investigation from those charged with enforcing the law. Only twice did his freelance career seem to be even temporarily derailed. The first time was when he embraced Yassir Arafat in 1979 and compared the plight of modern Palestinians to the sufferings of Jews during the World War II holocaust. The second time came in 1984 during Jackson’s pathetic campaign to receive the Democratic Party nomination for president. (The incompetent Walter Mondale beat him in 1984 and the even more pathetic Michael Dukkakis topped him in 1988.)
Before visiting New York City, Jackson on numerous occasions called the place "Hymietown" in an obvious reference to the Jews who lived there. When Juan Williams, then of the Washington Post, reported the candidate’s open lack of civility toward Jews, the campaign went into an uproar. (Williams had even buried Jackson’s slurs well into the story, so even then Jackson was receiving preferential treatment.) At first, Jackson did what most politicians do when caught with their hands in the cookie jar: he lied.
Much later, after his supporters had made threats upon Williams’s life (Williams is black and was accused, of course, of "betraying his race"), Jackson gave a tearful apology to a carefully-picked Jewish audience. Had a white candidate done the same thing (or done something similar, like referring to a city dominated by blacks as "niggertown"), his career would have been over. Jackson is judged by a lower standard, however, and he survived his moniker as "the moral voice of America."
The 1984 campaign, however, revealed something else about Jackson. Not only does he mangle the Holy Scriptures and use racial epithets against minority groups, he is also quite stingy. According to his 1983 tax returns, Jackson and his wife earned $115,000. The "moral voice of America" gave a mere $500 to churches and charities.
That Jackson was making six figures at a time when about two percent of Americans made that kind of money makes one wonder how a person who jets from one television camera to another earns his high pay. An incident in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1988 demonstrated how he does make a living – and also showed once again his absolutely cynical worldview.
In 1988, DuPont was make a major expansion at its plant in Chattanooga and had hired the Daniel Corporation of Greenville, South Carolina, to do its construction. Daniel, as veterans of the old "Civil Rights Movement" might recall, had a CEO who spoke out against racism and segregation in the early 1960s, long before it was popular to do so nearly anywhere in the country. In fact, Daniel had made a strong – and voluntary – effort to hire blacks and other minorities outside any mandates from the federal government.
However, Daniel is also non-union and that enraged the construction unions in Chattanooga, which still were feeling the pinch after the Tennessee Valley Authority had stopped major construction projects. The trade unions in Chattanooga have had a long history of excluding blacks from the skilled trades. In fact, one could easily argue that the Ku Klux Klan could never have done the harm to blacks that the unions had done in Chattanooga.
The Chattanooga unions’ racist history did not keep Jackson from being the featured speaker at a union rally condemning Daniel. Keep in mind that Daniel had not locked any local workers out of the project. However, Daniel had specifically said it would not work with the local unions, and that was enough to make the carpenters and plumbers cheer when Jesse poured it on.
The Teamsters Union underwrote the entire sordid affair. Jackson had his money (and a free birthday party thrown for him by the unions) and he was able to preen on camera before the worshipful local media.
There was one more thing. The plant manager of the Chattanooga plant at that time was the only black plant manager in the entire DuPont system. So much for Jackson championing real accomplishments by blacks.
Jackson’s base organization is called People United to Save Humanity, or Operation PUSH. The way that PUSH earns much of its income is through government grants and from extorting money from businesses. I say extortion because businesses that fail to deliver what Jackson asks from them quickly find themselves vilified in the press as being racist. It is hard to know how effective the organization has been at saving humanity, but it is a good fund raising tool to keep Jackson in a six-figure income.
About 20 years ago, federal auditors found numerous irregularities in PUSH’s financial statements. To put it mildly, the organization’s bookkeeping was a shambles and millions of dollars had disappeared without any accounting for them. While no one could directly accuse Jackson of criminal wrongdoing in the matter, it is clear that had Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University or Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network engaged in such shenanigans, someone would have gone to prison and the reputations of those men would have been ruined. However, no one at PUSH was prosecuted and the federal tax monies continue to pour into Jackson’s organization – and Jackson’s pocket.
It is safe to say that someone like Jesse Jackson could not make the kind of money he makes in a truly free society. Jackson’s income is a combination of speaking fees and payments from PUSH. As we have seen, PUSH is funded and protected by the federal government. His union speaking fees come from groups that are protected by government and actively lobby politicians to limit the freedom of others. Were it not for his clout with the leftist news media, that protects him at every turn, he would never receive an invitation to speak at any business gathering. As it is, he receives huge fees for speaking before business groups, even as he champions socialism and the welfare/warfare state.
In short, Jesse Jackson is the product not of a free society or a free market, but rather of a society that abandoned real freedom long ago. One could liken Jackson’s ubiquitous presence to the canary in the coal mine. (As long as the canary lived, miners knew there was no threat from deadly methane gas. However, if the canary died, it was time to leave.) As long as Jackson thrives, it is a reminder to the rest of us that the leviathan state is still at work. The canary has long since been dead.
July 3, 2000
William L. Anderson, Ph.D., is assistant professor of economics at North Greenville College in Tigerville, South Carolina. He is an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute