| Jesse Jackson 18:35 - Feb 17 with 1070 views | stowmarketrange |
RIP to the reverend Jesse Jackson.What an amazing contribution he made to the civil rights movement in the 60’s.
He lived through segregation in the South to seeing a black president of the USA.
Condolences to his friends and family. |  | | |  |
| Jesse Jackson on 20:42 - Feb 17 with 955 views | Paddyhoops |
A great man , not without his faults but fought for better health care and women’s rights as much as he did for civil rights. A powerful speaker and sadly one of the good ones gone. |  | | |
| Jesse Jackson on 22:14 - Feb 17 with 845 views | Myke |
| Jesse Jackson on 20:42 - Feb 17 by Paddyhoops |
A great man , not without his faults but fought for better health care and women’s rights as much as he did for civil rights. A powerful speaker and sadly one of the good ones gone. |
Superb orator and took up MLKs mantle seamlessly. Unfortunate not to be nominated for President, which makes the calibre of the current incumbent even more lamentable. | | | |
| Jesse Jackson on 02:13 - Feb 18 with 722 views | numptydumpty |
| Jesse Jackson on 22:14 - Feb 17 by Myke |
Superb orator and took up MLKs mantle seamlessly. Unfortunate not to be nominated for President, which makes the calibre of the current incumbent even more lamentable. |
Remember him from years ago.
Like said, carried on from MLK. And still at a time, when blacks were dreadfully discriminated against.
And yes, when the standards in US politics are at an all time low, a reminder of how badly the United States has fallen in terms of calibre and statesman like people in or around the Oval office.
RIP Jesse and sadly also RIP A decent and upstanding United States of America. |  |
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| Jesse Jackson on 09:29 - Feb 18 with 593 views | terryb |
I hadn't realised how young he was when he became such a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement.
RIP to Jesse & condolences to his family & friends. | | | |
| Jesse Jackson on 19:42 - Feb 18 with 395 views | TacticalR |
Peter Camejo had stood as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Workers Party in the 1976 presidential election and later ran for the Greens in California. He was Ralph Nader's running mate when Nader ran for president in 2004. One of the consistent things about Camejo's autobiography North Star - A Memoir is that, whatever his political evolution, he remained hostile to the Democratic Party.
Camejo had initially formed a positive impression of Jackson when Camejo went to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to take part in one of the voting rights marches to Montgomery and observed Jackson and King in action.
Two sections from North Star explain his complete disillusionment with Jackson:
The Rainbow Coalition (1984)
'At the time the North Star Network was formed I made a major political mistake. A new sense of possibility had emerged when Jesse Jackson started the Rainbow Coalition and ran (as a Democrat) for president in 1984. Within the North Star there was a desire to get involved in supporting Jackson’s organization. While there were various points of view, mine being clearly opposed to the Democratic Party, I let myself be influenced into seeing the Jackson movement as a possible beginning of a real reform movement (similar to the nineteenth-century “barnburners”) or an actual split with the Democrats.
This error on my part lasted until I came to my senses and realized that, with few exceptions, the Rainbow Coalition was just another name for keeping progressives in the Democratic Party. Jesse Jackson was a hard-core Democrat and remains so today.
In Oakland the Rainbow Coalition was led by an extremely dedicated man, Wilson Riles, Jr., the son of the first African American elected to statewide office in California. Wilson, a Democrat, had been an Oakland city council member, and through the Rainbow Coalition it was decided that he should run for mayor. The mayoral election was a nonpartisan race and I felt very comfortable working to help Wilson, as did all the other people involved in the North Star Network or the Rainbow Coalition. He was running against a mainstream, pro-corporate Democrat, also African American. We all felt Wilson had a good chance if we could put together a powerful campaign. His platform was clearly pro-labor, pro-social justice, and pro-peace.
Jesse Jackson was scheduled to come to Oakland and we thought this could be a real opportunity to gain support for Wilson Riles. To our shock and amazement Jesse Jackson, without talking to Wilson or to the Rainbow Coalition, held a press conference to endorse the mainstream Democrat against Riles. I will never forget the anger it created. Wilson stood up to Jackson and publicly attacked Jackson’s open break with the supposed platform of the Rainbow Coalition. Wilson lost the election in part due to Jesse Jackson’s betrayal. Years later Wilson Riles, Jr., resigned as a Democrat and joined the Green Party.
After this betrayal most of the Oakland members of the Rainbow Coalition changed their attitude toward Jesse Jackson. Over time Jackson worked to end the Rainbow’s independent organizational structure, putting it under his direct control as he more openly opposed allowing the Rainbow Coalition to be an organizing center for people who favored independent political action. Only in Vermont did the coalition break with Jackson to form an independent political current, called the Progressive Party, which still exists. It has its own representatives in the state legislature but does also endorse Democrats.'
The Campaign for Matt Gonzalez as Mayor of San Francisco (2003)
'Amazing events began to take place. Bill Clinton, the Democratic former president of the United States, took off three days from his schedule to come to San Francisco to campaign against Matt. The fear this reflected was astonishing. This should be a lesson to all progressives of the underlying power of a mass break from the two parties.
The Nader phenomenon, which the Democrats thought had been buried by their relentless “spoiler” campaign, had raised its head in a new place and manner. A city assumed to be completely controlled by the Democrats - where a challenge had never even been considered a possibility - was in play to a Nader supporter. Quickly following Clinton was Al Gore, the former vice president, who came to plead with the Democrats to stand fast behind their party’s nominee. Never mind that Newsom had been on George Bush’s voter cards in the 2000 election when Newsom was running for board of supervisors. Never mind that Newsom was essentially also the nominee of the Republican Party. Did Gore or Clinton argue the issues? Of course not. Jesse Jackson was next in line, making robo-calls urging a vote for Newsom. Nancy Pelosi and Dianne Feinstein also got in on the act. Here was a clear class lineup. San Francisco Republicans and Democrats joined forces, with the Democrats reaching for their biggest names, to try and stop an unknown Green Latino from becoming a pro-labor mayor of a major U.S. city.' |  |
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| Jesse Jackson on 20:23 - Feb 18 with 333 views | BrianMcCarthy |
I've been thinking about this all day, and I can't believe how little I know about Jesse Jackson.
When I was doing my catholic confirmation aged eleven, I had to pick a 'confirmation name'. I picked Luther. It was a tribute to Martin Luther King. It might have also been just to annoy the Bishop. We ended up having a chat about it. I went with Joseph in the end, but I got concessions in other areas. A long story.
Anyway, all this is to point out how much I adored Martin Luther King. But, while I'd heard about Jesse Jackson, and continued to hear about him, I'm ashamed to admit that I really know very little about him.
So, all I can say is that from what I know he seemed to make a hugly positive effect on the world and on humanity.
He seemed to be on the caring side, the human side, whenever I did hear his name.
Ar dheis Dé.
Say hello to Martin if that's possible at all. |  |
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| Jesse Jackson on 22:17 - Feb 18 with 234 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Jesse Jackson on 20:23 - Feb 18 by BrianMcCarthy |
I've been thinking about this all day, and I can't believe how little I know about Jesse Jackson.
When I was doing my catholic confirmation aged eleven, I had to pick a 'confirmation name'. I picked Luther. It was a tribute to Martin Luther King. It might have also been just to annoy the Bishop. We ended up having a chat about it. I went with Joseph in the end, but I got concessions in other areas. A long story.
Anyway, all this is to point out how much I adored Martin Luther King. But, while I'd heard about Jesse Jackson, and continued to hear about him, I'm ashamed to admit that I really know very little about him.
So, all I can say is that from what I know he seemed to make a hugly positive effect on the world and on humanity.
He seemed to be on the caring side, the human side, whenever I did hear his name.
Ar dheis Dé.
Say hello to Martin if that's possible at all. |
Well Joseph, if you're ever in New Orleans, then you should go to what I consider one of the best museums in the world, the National Civil Rights Museum. I won't spoil it, but let's just say the last part of it, is amazing!
From my time as a resident of Atlanta, I had a very surreal experience on my final day there. I drove to the Ebanezer and whereas it's usually busy, on this particular day, not a soul there. They play MLK's famous speeches on permanent loop, and as I sat in the pews his 'I have a dream' speech came on. No one there, just me. |  |
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