Reason 8,00,000 Jesse Jackson is a blackmailer

[markvid]

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou060702_cd_jessejackson5.1c18dbee.html

I guess he needs more money, and he found a new target.

I wonder how many non-blacks are in the Rainbow Coalition upper levels?

 

[poindexter]

 

[alleyallen]

Again, you're hating the messenger and glossing over the message. The message is that oil prices are getting criminally high, but so many other people are wanting to focus on the fact that it's the Rev who's spreading that message.

Good job, guys. Way to focus.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Oh, but Cindy Sheehan is hugging him! Worse than a Mengele/Dahmer hugging picture would be, apparently.

 

[markvid]

No, Alley.
Of course gas prices are high.
But would Jesse be protesting them if his shakedown for more $$$ is successful?

 

[poindexter]

Jesse's main concern is that someone's making a lot of money in oil, and its not *him*.

 

[poindexter]

Driven by greed, “Just greed galore,” said Jackson.

Oh, that is rich.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

But you only need two reasons to prove he's a black male ...

 

[markvid]

Driven by greed, “Just greed galore,” said Jackson.

Oh, that is rich.

DING DING DING!

 

[dooley_womack1]

As opposed to the oil companies, which are driven by altruism. Boy, it's disheartening, on a journalism message board, to see people constantly write off public protest as wingnuttery. Way to defend the First Amendment, y'all.

 

[markvid]

As opposed to the oil companies, which are driven by altruism. Boy, it's disheartening, on a journalism message board, to see people constantly write off public protest as wingnuttery. Way to defend the First Amendment, y'all.

Dools, the last thing Jesse is about is the First Amendment, he's about how much money can I make without doing any work.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

Again, you're hating the messenger and glossing over the message. The message is that oil prices are getting criminally high, but so many other people are wanting to focus on the fact that it's the Rev who's spreading that message.

Good job, guys. Way to focus.

I basically assume that pretty much anyone talking about gas prices publicly is committing some form of demogoguery and that is doubly true for Da Rev. Yes, oil prices are high. But just yelling greed at the top of your lungs isn't solving the problem. To pretend that gas prices aren't complex isn't solving the problem. But Jesse has never been about solving the problem: he is about using the problem to the advantage of Jesse Jackson.

 

[poindexter]

It's wingnuttery, Dooley.

Sheehan, Jesse, Sarandon, the whole lot of them.

They are fruitcakes, nutballs, wingnuts and wackjobs.

Some are greedier than others.

Jackson, the shakedown specialist, is the greediest. **** him.

 

[dooley_womack1]

How, precisely, does Jesse Jackson profit if more minorities get gas stations? They gonna pay him a kickback? And yes, Jesse Jackson needs money to further his political aims. So what? Nothing wrong with trying to raise funds for your cause.

And Poin, you say you're not a journo, so I don't expect any better on the issue of right to expression. You'd rather us be drones who silently take it and take it.

 

[poindexter]

If Jesse Jackson and Cindy Sheehan are the best voices you have to fight your battles, Dooley, hang it up.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

How, precisely, does Jesse Jackson profit if more minorities get gas stations? They gonna pay him a kickback? And yes, Jesse Jackson needs money to further his political aims. So what? Nothing wrong with trying to raise funds for your cause.

And Poin, you say you're not a journo, so I don't expect any better on the issue of right to expression. You'd rather us be drones who silently take it and take it.

Maybe Jesse's sons want to own a gas station:

In 1982, Jackson launched a "this Bud's a dud" boycott of Anheuser-Busch because it had only three Black-owned distributors nationwide. After languishing for over a decade, the boycott movement received a boost when Budweiser’s River North distributorship was accused of denying promotions to several of its African American employees. Jackson came to the aid of the employees in 1997 shortly after the first EEOC blackmail suit was filed. Shortly thereafter, Anheuser Busch contributed $10,000 to Jackson’s Citizenship Education Fund, contributed over $500,000 to the Rainbow PUSH coalition, and established a $10 million fund to help non-whites buy distributorships. In 1998, the River North distributorship was purchased by two of Jackson’s sons Yusef and Jonathan Jackson. They refuse to publicly disclose how much they paid for the distributor, but the business was worth an estimated $25 to $30 million. Shortly after the sale, Jackson dropped his prior support of the Anheuser Busch boycott campaign. The St. Louis American, a Black-owned paper in St. Louis, Missouri, reported that Jackson had demanded $500 each from local African American businessmen to help support the Anheuser-Busch boycott campaign. Jackson sued the paper for libel but dropped the suit when a judge ruled that the paper could inspect the finances of Jackson as well as his many organizations in order to prove their case. Jackson’s critics, such as Chicago Sun-Times reporter Tim Novak, claim that Jackson had in effect blackmailed Anheuser-Busch into selling the distributorship to Jackson’s sons in exchange for Jackson dropping the boycott. They also point out that Yusef and Jonathan Jackson had no prior experience in alcoholic beverage distribution or any other business.

I'm not denying Jesse's right to hold a peaceful protest. I'm just saying that I don't trust his motives.

 

[markvid]

How, precisely, does Jesse Jackson profit if more minorities get gas stations? They gonna pay him a kickback? And yes, Jesse Jackson needs money to further his political aims. So what? Nothing wrong with trying to raise funds for your cause.

And Poin, you say you're not a journo, so I don't expect any better on the issue of right to expression. You'd rather us be drones who silently take it and take it.

Doools, do you know how many companies have been visited by the Rainbow Coalition, only to be told that we don't like the way you treat blacks (whether or not it is deserved doesn't matter to them), but if you give us some $$$, we just might be willing to look the other way and not protest.

How is that not blackmail?

 

[dooley_womack1]

Whether they're fighting my battle or not (I don't always feel strongly about Jackson's causes, but I am 100 percent behind Sheehan) doesn't matter. I admire them for using their First Amendment rights and putting their asses on the line. Same as I would support the right of people to picket an abortion clinic (as long as they don't physically impede people), tho I don't agree with their aims.

 

[markvid]

Dools, I understand what you are saying, but how can you think this has ANYTHING to do with the First Amendment when it comes to Jesse?

 

[poindexter]

At colleauge at my work participated in the Jesse shakedown meeting when she worked at Toyota. Very entertaining story.