Wonder who will extort businesses nationwide now?

Very mixed emotions here. I've told this before on here but this thread deserves the other side of Reverend Jackson.

My parents divorced in 1997 and my dad took it really hard. He kept it inside like most men and he contemplated suicide for a period of time. He had a business trip planned to New York and decided to go early to Niagara Falls where jumping was seriously on his mind.

When he took his seat in first class Jesse Jackson was seated next to him. They began to talk and dad began telling him how much pain he was in and how he wanted to end it all. They end up kneeling in front of their seats for an extended time, hand in hand, praying together with Jackson asking God to help my dad find joy in his relationships with me and my sister and with God and to help him find a way forward.

To this day Dad will tell you Jesse Jackson saved his life. My son (first grandchild) was born less that a year later. About two years after that dad was remarried to a woman he met a couple of months after that trip and finding happiness in a new life.

So yeah I simply can't muster the anger at his politics because I know there was a good man in there and when the cameras were turned off he saved my dad's life.

RIP Reverend Jackson. Thank you.

Dude nailed everything he could and it was lots. Respect the game. RIP Legend.

Maybe Jesse can have another chat with MLK Jr. now and learn about judging people by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin, because it's a lesson he absolutely failed to grasp the first time they were together.

That's a wonderful story.

Wow. I really appreciate you sharing that story. Thank you, sir.

He was a bad guy; one of the first true race-baiters. He was about power and corruption and used the useful idiocy of the white lefty and on the back of blacks.

I had to deal with his corrupt organization many times. He was the griftyest of grifters.

Beautiful story and thank you for reminding us that most people are more than the caricature we create of them.

Jessie stole the career and legacy of MLK and grifted his way - kinda like how JLo stolethe career of Selena

Like his politics / the man or not, he had the courage to run for national office when there was still some real racism in this country. Respect.

Rest in peace.

Thank you for sharing that. It's a good reminder that people are complicated, and we all have our strengths and weaknesses.

R.I.P. to the reverend.

RIP to Rev. Jackson. T&P

One of the best South Park episodes ever made was with him!


Edit: Kind of ironic he passed in February. Maybe we'll get another National holiday?

His epic flip-flop on abortions is enough to tell you political expediency was what he was all about.

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I was at O'Hare checking in a few years ago, looked over and saw Jesse checking in at the line next to mine. Not sure why I was shocked to think he was flying on a regular airline, assumed he would only fly private.

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He didn't have that kind of money.

His grift was finding every instance where a company had somehow mistreated an AA. He would swoop in, gather the pastors from the local AA churches to coordinate a loud pressure campaign. He would then take 50% of whatever was extorted, leaving the rest for the local pastors to split up.

He did this over and over and over. He pretty much lived grift to grift.

All of this was after MLK's death of course. Prior to that, he had been an integral part of MLK's inner circle.

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Wonder who will extort businesses nationwide now?

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only person I have ever seen who went from morbidly obese to anorexic

BEFORE GLP1

Rush Limbaugh was one of the first that was brave enough to publicly call out Jesse's grift knowing what people would call him. He just called it as he saw it and exposed a lot of Jesse's racket.

The Revvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvrrrrrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuund Jaaaackkkksson
- El Rushbo

Jesse once spoke to a group of black high school kids and asked a couple of questions. "If you saw a noose in someone's locker, would you tell on them?" Everyone raised their hand. Then he asked, "if you saw dope in someone's locker, would you tell on them?" No one raised their hands. He then stated that "they had more to fear from dope than the rope" meaning that drugs were killing way more black kids than race related incidents. But his constituents pushed back so hard on him that he gave up on that and I don't believe he publicly used that again.

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Very mixed emotions here. I've told this before on here but this thread deserves the other side of Reverend Jackson.

My parents divorced in 1997 and my dad took it really hard. He kept it inside like most men and he contemplated suicide for a period of time. He had a business trip planned to New York and decided to go early to Niagara Falls where jumping was seriously on his mind.

When he took his seat in first class Jesse Jackson was seated next to him. They began to talk and dad began telling him how much pain he was in and how he wanted to end it all. They end up kneeling in front of their seats for an extended time, hand in hand, praying together with Jackson asking God to help my dad find joy in his relationships with me and my sister and with God and to help him find a way forward.

To this day Dad will tell you Jesse Jackson saved his life. My son (first grandchild) was born less that a year later. About two years after that dad was remarried to a woman he met a couple of months after that trip and finding happiness in a new life.

So yeah I simply can't muster the anger at his politics because I know there was a good man in there and when the cameras were turned off he saved my dad's life.

RIP Reverend Jackson. Thank you.

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Great story. Thanks for sharing. I don't know why your emotions would be mixed. Family trumps politics ten times out of ten. That story's a good reminder that partisan politics are not the end all be all.