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Rainbow/Push Coalition founder Rev. Jesse Jackson on why he supports the Black National anthem.

Thousands of people who returned to their homes throughout the U.S. after the NAACP convention in Kansas City should have stayed longer. They left a lot of unfinished business. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver in a public forum on “green jobs” criticized the oldest and largest civil rights group in the nation for failing to live up to its legacy of street protests and activism. “The NAACP may not like what I have to say,” said Cleaver, a Methodist minister who marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement. “But we have abandoned what got us over.”...

John Edwards has had the decency to go away. So far, so too has Peekaboo Al Gore. Bill Clinton no longer lectures the naïve about his faith. So why does baby-daddy Jesse Jackson still get to hang around the press and pontificate on Andrew Breitbart? Recently, Jackson called Breitbart "morally wrong" for releasing a portion of a tape showing race-hustler Shirley Sherrod talking about using her power as a government employee to screw white farmers. Jesse, cheating on your wife is morally wrong. Making anti-Semitic comments is morally wrong. Befriending racist Louis Farrakhan is morally wrong. Spitting in a person's...

The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton sought Wednesday to steer attention away from an NAACP resolution condemning racism within the tea party movement, saying focus should remain on jobs and an upcoming march in Washington. Jackson deflected questions about the resolution at a news conference during the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Kansas City. "We will not be diverted or otherwise distracted by any other message except putting America back to work," Jackson said a day after convention delegates approved the resolution. "We want jobs and justice and peace." Sharpton was...

Let’s say a government inspector comes into your place of business and finds a number of violations which may or may not be legitimate. What would you think if he offered to ignore the violations in exchange for a percentage of your profits? That would be extortion, right? Whether you had actually done anything wrong would suddenly be moot. The question would become whether you were going to play ball in a corrupt system. As Comcast and NBC/Universal seek policy makers’ blessing of their proposed merger, they appear to face a similar dilemma. Testimony at a recent hearing in Chicago...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert got in another word about the messy, heartbreaking split with LeBron James. He promised it's his last one. On Monday, Gilbert said he strongly disagrees with Rev. Jesse Jackson's criticism of his recent comments about James, who announced last week he was leaving Cleveland after seven seasons to join fellow All-Stars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat. Shortly after James' announcement, Gilbert fired off an incendiary letter to Cavs fans, vilifying the 25-year-old and calling his decision to bolt Cleveland as "narcissistic" and "cowardly behavior." He also guaranteed his team...

On Sunday, Jesse Jackson criticized Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert saying his remarks in the open letter he released to the people of Cleveland after LeBron James announced he’ll be leaving to join the Miami Heat was akin to calling James a “runaway slave.” Jackson says the comments were “mean, arrogant, and presumptuous.” “He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers,” the reverend said in a release from his Chicago-based civil rights group, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. “His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave....

Jackson rips Gilbert's LeBron comments Associated Press CHICAGO -- Jesse Jackson criticized Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert on Sunday, saying Gilbert sees LeBron James as a "runaway slave" and that the owner's comments after the free-agent forward decided to join the Miami Heat put the player in danger. “ Jackson His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship -- between business partners -- and LeBron honored his contract. ” -- Rev. Jesse Jackson on Cavs owner Dan Gilbert's comments about LeBron James Shortly after James announced his...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld a federal law barring material support for foreign terrorist organizations. And right on time, America’s favorite useful idiot has come out swinging against it. Jimmy Carter is upset because, with this federal law upheld, he won’t be able to pal around with his buddies in Hamas and Hezbollah anymore. Cue the tiny little violin playing: Former President Jimmy Carter has voiced concern that Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on “material support” to terrorist groups may criminalize his “work to promote peace and freedom.” Carter, whose advocacy has entailed contact with groups designated by the U.S. government...

Remember this story from 2006? From the Independent (UK) The Reverend Jesse Jackson, the veteran civil rights leader, has called on African Americans to boycott BP over its record on equality. The campaigner has set out plans to picket some of the oil giant’s 12,000 petrol stations across the US because the company has so few ethnic minority- owned distributors. And he is tying the campaign to outrage over the high oil price. This has pushed up energy costs, which, he claims, fall disproportionately on urban residents, including many African Americans. From the ACUF.org, the American Conservative Union Foundation Judicial...

(Video) On Fox Business channel, Jesse Jackson discusses his call for a nationwide “boycott” of BP gas stations. Jackson called the oil spill Barack Obama’s “responsibility,” but he said, “It’s not his fault.” At around 2:00 into the video Jackson made a bizarre statement, saying, “Some will have mercy on BP, but they’re bigots.”

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Rainbow-PUSH leader leads BP spill protest June 3, 2010 BY CHRISTIN NANCE LAZERUS, (219) 648-3086 As crews struggle to contain the largest oil spill in American history in the Gulf of Mexico, critics of BP are starting to turn up the heat. The Rev. Jesse Jackson led a group of protesters on a march outside of BP's Whiting refinery on Wednesday afternoon to focus attention on what he says is the lax environmental enforcement that allowed the Gulf oil spill to occur -- and problems closer to home. "We need the (Environmental Protection Agency) standards enforced," Jackson said. "At this...

Now Carly Fiorina tells us that she regards Jesse Jackson with reverence, and she actually worked with Jesse Jackson. And how many millions of dollars did she authorize for Jesse Jackson when she was CEO at Hewlett-Packard? (Hint: at least $15 million) Yet, minority business leaders themselves have been at the forefront of exposing that Jackson took the money and ran, focusing more on shaking down American corporations to finance his Rainbow Coalition/Operation PUSH gambits than actually to help African Americans, Latinos, and others gain access to meaningful employment in the high-tech community. California Republicans have to consider whether the...

Via Red State, I find disturbing audio of California Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, speaking in glowing terms about Jesse Jackson, who she did work with while at Hewlett Packard. Here's what she had to say: "And I thought about something that the Reverend Jesse Jackson said to me several years ago. He very graciously came to the offices of Hewlett Packard to visit me, because we were doing some work together for his Rainbow Coalition. And he said to me, 'You know, Carly, every game is better when everybody gets to play.' And I thought it was such a...

Partyer in Chief By Joel Stein Monday, Jun. 07, 2010 I don't know much about what the Tea Party stands for, but I do know it's my big chance to gain political power. Moving up in the Democratic or Republican Party would take decades, but the Tea Party is searching for leaders. Getting in on a movement early is how you get to be Sam Adams or Jesse Jackson or Obama Girl.For advice, I called Mark Williams, founder of the Tea Party Express, which raises millions of dollars by traveling in a bus and putting on shows with acts like...

The final answer is, "no," Chicago-based Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is not endorsing a Republican to take Barack Obama's old Illinois U.S. Senate seat. But Jackson is making news by seeming to be toying with the idea of abandoning the troubled Democrat candidate, Alexi Giannoulias. And, in the end, that's all this is. It's Jesse Jackson, Jr. employing the ages old Chicago Democrat game of fishing for payoffs. The game goes like this: Long-time Democrat strong-man wants a pay off of one kind or another so he pretends he might support someone surprising, someone that isn't the expected pick. Party...

At the Goldman Sachs annual meeting on Friday, I had an unplanned exchange with CEO Lloyd Blankfein about Goldman's support of Jesse Jackson, who was at the meeting and kept popping up to speak. Jackson was acting adversarial toward Blankfein, even though Goldman Sachs is one of Jackson’s largest financial supporters. In hopes of ending this charade, I asked Blankfein to clarify the relationship between Goldman and Jackson as that of donor and recipient. Blankfein said he didn't know if Goldman supported Jackson. I challenged him by asking, "You do not know?" and "You give Jackson's group six-figure sums and...

If Major League Baseball caves into the wishes of those who are breaking the law and entering the law ILLEGALLY and moves the 2011 All Star game from Arizona, I vow to never watch baseball again. Who is with me?

This column originally appeared in America’s Voices in 2001. Amazing how little has changed with the Left–-they were abusing the race card after 9/11 too: Action Jackson, back in the saddle again! Wait, no he isn’t. Oh, yes he is! Nope. He’s out of the game again. We all knew it was just a matter of time. Like his good friend, Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson considers any crisis in terms of the potential for good photo ops. The vicious terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th would be no exception. Nobody besides Clinton and the Spice Girls needs...