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Rotovia and I were the ones that started the vote for president trend many of you see now on the forums, we started on the same night by accident or coincidence, Rotovia with Oprah for President and I with Bill O'Reilly for President 2008.

A thread I thought would be controversial enough to get alot of posts, but I guess I was wrong, I can always bring it back.

Now on Subject, keeping with that tradition here is one more, my reason for it is to see who would vote for this person and why, if he has any appeal to democrats, socialist or others, since he has liberal and socialist type views.

Rotovia and I were the ones that started the vote for president trend many of you see now on the forums, we started on the same night by accident or coincidence, Rotovia with Oprah for President and I with Bill O'Reilly for President 2008.

A thread I thought would be controversial enough to get alot of posts, but I guess I was wrong, I can always bring it back.

Now on Subject, keeping with that tradition here is one more, my reason for it is to see who would vote for this person and why, if he has any appeal to democrats, socialist or others, since he has liberal and socialist type views.

*rubs eyes* havent I seen this somewhere?

Rotovia and I were the ones that started the vote for president trend many of you see now on the forums, we started on the same night by accident or coincidence, Rotovia with Oprah for President and I with Bill O'Reilly for President 2008.

A thread I thought would be controversial enough to get alot of posts, but I guess I was wrong, I can always bring it back.

Now on Subject, keeping with that tradition here is one more, my reason for it is to see who would vote for this person and why, if he has any appeal to democrats, socialist or others, since he has liberal and socialist type views.

Only thing that ass needs to run for is a hole in the ground and stay there. Never to bother the world again.

Nothing but a politicol ambulance chaser is that freak.

Only thing that ass needs to run for is a hole in the ground and stay there. Never to bother the world again.

Nothing but a politicol ambulance chaser is that freak.

Someone's got too much starch in their white hood...

This time I had problems with my computer while trying to make the thread, this thread is supposed to have a public poll, I will try again than have it merged.

Please hold your post and comments.

As a native Cuban there is no way I would ever vote for Jesse Jackson.

Someone's got too much starch in their white hood...

Yes, let's demonise someone for disliking one person based on that person's ethnicity!

Ass.

There ARE valid reasons for not wanting a person in power - in this case, he's a demagogue and very little else - and to assume that race is the deciding factor when it probably isn't even the first you notice is folly.

Someone's got too much starch in their white hood...

Just because I dont like Jesse Jackson Im a KKK member ?

Go to hell freak.

I hate Racists, only things I hate more are Child Molesters and Rapists. And yes, I do hate Black, Asian, American Indian, you name it, racists as well. Since no, you cant hide behind saying it isnt racism, it is pride in your race. Thats BS. One thing ya have to give the true kluckers, they dont try to sugar coat their nasty views.

A black person for president? werd :)
Something I would like to see in my lifetime.

Rotovia and I were the ones that started the vote for President trend many of you see now on the forums, we started on the same night by accident or coincidence, Rotovia with Oprah for President and I with Bill O'Reilly for President 2008 II.

A thread I thought would be controversial enough to get alot of posts, but I guess I was wrong, I can always bring it back by popular demand even though you may not vote for Bill O'Reilly.

Now on Subject, Keeping with that tradition here is one more, my reason for it is to see who would vote for Jesse Jackson and why, if he has any appeal to democrats, socialist or communist and others, since he has liberal and socialist views.

I hate Racists, only things I hate more are Child Molesters and Rapists. And yes, I do hate Black, Asian, American Indian, you name it, racists as well. Since no, you cant hide behind saying it isnt racism, it is pride in your race. Thats BS. One thing ya have to give the true kluckers, they dont try to sugar coat their nasty views.Wow... you hate me? And you hate racist? What you're smokin' up to. You should take a mental assessment or put down your bong.

So blaming everything on somebody else, makes him a liberal? Does he have other views :D

A black person for president? werd :)

Something I would like to see in my lifetime.

America would be the best country with Jesse Jackson as President. ;)

Wow... you hate me? And you hate racist? What you're smokin' up to. You should take a mental assessment or put down your bong.

DUH, which way did it go George.

GO back and read it again.


I was saying there that just because you are night white it doesnt make your racism okie dokies.

Ok, Ill try to spell everything out on a third grade level from here on.

Rotovia and I were the ones that started the vote for President trend many of you see on the forums now, we started on the same night by accident or coincidence, Rotovia with Oprah for President and I with Bill O'Reilly for President 2008 II.

A thread i thought would be controversial enough to get alot of votes and posts, but I guess I was wrong, I can always bring it back by popular demand even though you may not vote for Bill O'Reilly.

Now on subject, Keeping with that tradition here is one more, my reason for it is to see who would vote for Jesse Jackson and why, if he has any appeal to democrats, socialist or communitst and others, since he has liberal or socialist views.

Rotovia and I were the ones that started the vote for President trend many of you see on the forums now, we started on the same night by accident or coincidence, Rotovia with Oprah for President and I with Bill O'Reilly for President 2008 II.

A thread i thought would be controversial enough to get alot of votes and posts, but I guess I was wrong, I can always bring it back by popular demand even though you may not vote for Bill O'Reilly.

Now on subject, Keeping with that tradition here is one more, my reason for it is to see who would vote for Jesse Jackson and why, if he has any appeal to democrats, socialist or communitst and others, since he has liberal or socialist views.

Do the MODs here not watch for Trolls spamming the same thing over and over ?

I might vote for him. He seems to be social democratic, which is good, but I fear that he could be an ineffective, weak politician. He also lets his religion get in the way of reason.

I could never vote for somebody who uses rhymes and alliterations in political speeches. It's childish.

Would anyone like to see La Habana Cuba post something good about Jesse Jackson, I can that is why I ask this question, I can even do it in Haiku style?

I could never vote for somebody who uses rhymes and alliterations in political speeches. It's childish.
It's awesome. Aside form Hitler* I haven't heard a good politician in years....


*Apologies to the Jewish people.

Hi Rotovia, as you can see, I gave you credit.

I also made this tread since no one has ever made a Jesse Jackson for President thread.

The fact that I as a native Cuban can never vote for Jesse Jackson for anything, well that is another story.

Hi Rotovia, as you can see, I gave you credit.

I also made this tread since no one has ever made a Jesse Jackson for President thread.

The fact that I as a native Cuban can never vote for Jesse Jackson for anything, well that is another story.
Cheers for that by the way. I'll make sure to return the favour.

Are you really Cuban? That's awesome if you are.

A racist will never be President, especially not one as blatantly obvious as him.

La Habana Cuba is a native born Cuban Rotovia.

Anti Castro naturally and I consider myself a proud card carrying member of the Miami Mafia, even though I live in Orlando Florida, but what Cuban has not lived in Miami.

Hi Rotovia, as you can see, I gave you credit.

I also made this tread since no one has ever made a Jesse Jackson for President thread.

The fact that I as a native Cuban can never vote for Jesse Jackson for anything, well that is another story.

Aye you made the thread several times.

And I would agree with a previous poster.

Hagel Hitler. Ich liebe alle Rassisten. Und von meinem Grab, das ich Jesse bete, erhält die Stimmen, also wird ein neues Hitler Deutschland in Amerika mit ofcourse einige neue Torsionen getragen.

I think it would be a cool stunt, but not a good choice, like Arnold for govenor. Jesse Jackson has a lot of pep and hype, but I don't think he's really got the goods to back up a position of power.

La Habana Cuba has lived in
Beloit Wisconsin,
Chicago Illinois,
La - Los Angeles California,
Indianapollis Indiana,
Cleveland Ohio and
Miami Florida.

I have visited Santo Domingo - The Dominican Republic twice.

Puerto Rico twice, the first time I stayed at a hotel, the second time I stayed at the home of a Puerto Rican family friends of mine.

Venezuela once, before Hugo Chavez, when a relative of mine emigrated from Cuba to the USA, via Venezuela.

And Canada once, when I visited Niagra Falls.

Tyma what does that mean, I dont speak german.

La Habana Cuba is a native born Cuban Rotovia.

Anti Castro naturally and I consider myself a proud card carrying member of the Miami Mafia, even though I live in Orlando Florida, but what Cuban has not lived in Miami.
Interesting. Now for the most important quesiton any Catholic can ask, you Catholic?

The gist of it is that he loves all racists and wouldn't mind a nazi germany rising in the United States.

Tyma>> Go kill yourself, please.

Yes, the only Cuban that isnt Catholic is President Dictator for life Fidel Castro.

A racist will never be President, especially not one as blatantly obvious as him.


Ditto from us on this.. Jackson should have been in prison for some of his comments made during certain past events in US cities over the past years.


But then again he is perfect as a crook..... oooops politician if he can keep Church and State separated as by that law that says they are. Or some court read as saying that.... Anyway he'd of got my vote over Kerry or Clinton.. But not over Carter of GA.. and dispite all the so called failures of the two Bush's they would get my vote over him.. Even Regan would gain my vote... Now Arnie if he runs he would be my choice.. but since he not natural US he not able to run...

The gist of it is that he loves all racists and wouldn't mind a nazi germany rising in the United States.

Tyma>> Go kill yourself, please.

No :) Killing myself is one sin I can't be forgiven for.

And no. That wasnt the gist of it.

So, perhaps you should to end that perticular debate. :)

Ditto from us on this.. Jackson should have been in prison for some of his comments made during certain past events in US cities over the past years.


But then again he is perfect as a crook..... oooops politician if he can keep Church and State separated as by that law that says they are. Or some court read as saying that.... Anyway he'd of got my vote over Kerry or Clinton.. But not over Carter of GA..

uhoh, you now labled a racist. You said something against Jesse

uhoh, you now labled a racist. You said something against Jesse

That's just sheets and pillow cases was taking to laundry in trunk or my car and the baseball bats are for the little league team I coach.. I'm not a racist, just an honest Amercian trying to do whats right for my contry..

Jesse Jackson may be the most racist man in America. He hates white people. He's a shameless media whore no matter what's happening if there's a black person within 50 miles he can scream about he'll be there to shamelessly put himself infront of the camera. Jesse Jackson doesn't care about poor people, he doesn't care about anyone but Jesse Jackson. I have no use for racists or media whores.

Would anyone like to see La Habana Cuba post something good about Jesse Jackson, I can that is why I ask this question, I can even do it in Haiku style?


I'd like to see you do it more in the Villanella style or maybe a sonnet.. as just one breath would not say enough about this man. Good or Bad...

Jesse Jackson may be the most racist man in America. He hates white people. He's a shameless media whore no matter what's happening if there's a black person within 50 miles he can scream about he'll be there to shamelessly put himself infront of the camera. Jesse Jackson doesn't care about poor people, he doesn't care about anyone but Jesse Jackson. I have no use for racists or media whores.

Amen. Black or white or pink, orange, red , yellow or purple. Agree there. Dont like him cause he is a racist and a ambulance chaser. (but ofcourse no such thing as being racist if not caucasion)

I have no use for racists or media whores.


That's why he would make a good politician....... he is just that.. and good at it.

I think he's got some good ideias. I might vote for him but I think a good president has got to be as unanimous and uniting as possible. He wouldn't fit the bill. Still he'd be far better than Bush the younger.

I think he's got some good ideias. I might vote for him but I think a good president has got to be as unanimous and uniting as possible. He wouldn't fit the bill. Still he'd be far better than Bush the younger.

What are his good ideas to you ? (beside the death of all white people)

Ich liebe alle Rassisten..


Either they prefer throughbred horses here or are very radical about their ideas on all this.. My german is not all that good.

[QUOTE=Garnilorn]Either they prefer throughbred horses here or are very radical about their ideas on all this.. My german is not all that good.[/QUO

I am a radical, Ive already been labeled that here. Not for Nazism but for fascist nature though :) Im extremely patriotic to my nation.

And no, that had nothing to do with horses

Hagel Hitler. Ich liebe alle Rassisten. Und von meinem Grab, das ich Jesse bete, erhält die Stimmen, also wird ein neues Hitler Deutschland in Amerika mit ofcourse einige neue Torsionen getragen.
Hail Hitler. I love all racists. And from my grave, which I Jesse pray, receives the voices, therefore a new Hitler Germany is carried in America with of course some new torsions.

What are his good ideas to you ? (beside the death of all white people)He does not support the death of all white people.

I like his idea for universal health care, and his reforms for the educational system. He also supports the creation of a palestinian state, etc, etc, among others... I do disagree with alot of other points.

Rotovia and I were the ones that started the vote for President trend many of you see on the forums now, we started on the same night by accident or coincidence, Rotovia with Oprah for President and I with Bill O'Reilly for President 2008 II.

A thread i thought would be controversial enough to get alot of votes and posts, but I guess I was wrong, I can always bring it back by popular demand even though you may not vote for Bill O'Reilly.

Now on subject, Keeping with that tradition here is one more, my reason for it is to see who would vote for Jesse Jackson and why, if he has any appeal to democrats, socialist or communitst and others, since he has liberal or socialist views.
Jesse Jackson would spell the end of the Republic. His political beliefs ( if you want to dignify them by labeling them that ) are seriously demented, not just far left ... but demented! He would probably be assassinated his first week in office, and not becuase he's black.

If the Democrats nominated him, what with all the complaining that this administration is too close to religion...

Rotovia and I were the ones that started the vote for President trend many of you see on the forums now, we started on the same night by accident or coincidence, Rotovia with Oprah for President and I with Bill O'Reilly for President 2008 II.

A thread i thought would be controversial enough to get alot of votes and posts, but I guess I was wrong, I can always bring it back by popular demand even though you may not vote for Bill O'Reilly.

Now on subject, Keeping with that tradition here is one more, my reason for it is to see who would vote for Jesse Jackson and why, if he has any appeal to democrats, socialist or communitst and others, since he has liberal or socialist views.

LMMFAO! YEAH SO HE CAN GET HIS ASS KICKED IN THE PRIMARIES AGAIN JUST LIKE IN THE 1980'S :D

*unless your talking about JR*

I think he's got some good ideias.
Name ONE!

Name ONE!
Check the top of this page. Post #31.

If the Democrats nominated him, what with all the complaining that this administration is too close to religion...So would I. But don't worry. It will never happen.

Black History
Jesse Jackson

Also known as: Jesse Louis Jackson, Jesse L. Jackson, Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson

Birth: October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Occupation: civil rights leader, politician, minister (religion)
Source: Contemporary Black Biography, Volume 27. Edited by Ashyia Henderson. Gale Group, 2001.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Awards
Biographical Essay
Career
Further Readings
Personal Information
Source Citation


BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
Jesse Jackson has firmly established himself as one of the most dynamic forces for social and political action in both the national and international arenas. He has campaigned for economic justice, human rights, world peace, and the United States presidency. An inspirational speaker, committed activist, and tireless and confident campaigner, Jackson began his career as a foot soldier in the Civil Rights movement of the 196Os and has developed into a leader of millions of Americans--black and white--a "rainbow coalition" of the nation's dispossessed and disenfranchised.

Jackson has drawn upon his own early experience in Greenville, South Carolina, to relate to his constituency. He was born on October 8, 1941, to a seventeen-year-old unwed high school student and her older, comfortably middle-class neighbor, a married man. Jackson's ancestry includes black slaves, a Cherokee, and a white plantation owner. Although the young Jackson was quite aware of poverty and illegitimacy, his mother, grandmother, and stepfather were always able to attend to family needs. Even so, his knowledge of social inequities and of his more privileged half brothers affected him. As Barbara Reynolds wrote in her biography Jesse Jackson: America's David: "Every teacher Jesse came into contact with took note of his insecurities, masked by a stoic sense of superiority. They never perceived him as brilliant, but rather each saw him as a charmer, a spirited, fierce competitor with an almost uncanny drive to prove himself by always winning, always being number one in everything." At Sterling High School Jackson was elected president of his class, the honor society, and the student council, was named state officer of the Future Teachers of America, finished tenth in his class, and lettered in football, basketball, and baseball.

In 1959 Jackson left the South to attend the University of Illinois on an athletic scholarship. During his first year, however, he became dissatisfied with his treatment on campus and on the gridiron and decided to transfer to Greensboro's North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, a predominantly black institution. There he was quarterback, honor student, fraternity officer, and president of the student body. After receiving his B.A. in sociology he accepted a Rockefeller grant to attend the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he planned to train for the ministry. Jackson was ordained a Baptist minister in 1968, though he had not finished his course work at CTS, having instead left in 1966 to commit himself full-time to the Civil Rights movement.

Jackson first became involved in the Civil Rights movement while a student at North Carolina A&T. There he joined the Greensboro chapter of the Council on Racial Equality (CORE), an organization that had led early sit-ins to protest segregated lunch counters. In 1963 Jackson organized numerous marches, sit-ins, and mass arrests to press for the desegregation of local restaurants and theaters. His leadership in these events earned him recognition within the regional movement; he was chosen president of the North Carolina Intercollegiate Council on Human Rights, field director of CORE's southeastern operations, and in 1964 served as delegate to the Young Democrats National Convention. In Chicago in 1965 Jackson was a volunteer for the Coordinating Committee of Community Organizations and organized regular meetings of local black ministers and the faculty of the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Joined King and the SCLC in 1965
Jackson joined Martin Luther King, Jr., and his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1965 during demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, pushing for expanded voting rights for blacks. When the SCLC launched the Chicago Freedom movement in 1966, Jackson was there to put his knowledge of the city and contacts within the black community to work for King. He organized local ministers to support the movement, marched through all-white neighborhoods to push for open housing, and began work on the SCLC's economic program, Operation Breadbasket. Drawing from successful campaigns in other cities, Operation Breadbasket organized the black community to use selective buying and boycotts to support black manufacturers and retailers and to pressure white-owned businesses to stock more of their products and hire more black workers. Jackson served as Operation Breadbasket's Chicago coordinator for one year and was then named its national director. Under Jackson's leadership the Chicago group won concessions from local dairies and supermarkets to hire more blacks and stock more products from black businesses. It encouraged deposits from businesses and the government for black-owned banks and organized a Black Christmas and a Black Expo to promote black-owned manufacturers.

In addition to his SCLC activities, Jackson led a number of other campaigns in his adopted home city and state. In 1969 and 1970 he gathered Illinois's malnourished and led them on a march to the state capital to raise consciousness of hunger. He led a similar event in Chicago. The state responded by increasing funding to school lunch programs, but Mayor Richard Daley's machine in Chicago was less cooperative. The mayor's power and resistance to change, as well as an Illinois law that raised difficult barriers to independent candidates, prompted Jackson to run for mayor of Chicago in 1971. He was not successful; some believe, however, that his efforts laid the foundation for Harold Washington's successful bid to become Chicago's first black mayor in 1983.

In 1971 Jackson resigned from the SCLC to found his own organization, People United to Save Humanity (PUSH). Because of his aggressive, impatient, and commanding personality, Jackson had long irritated SCLC leadership; and, in the three and a half years after King's assassination, he had offended others with his public antics to secure a role as leader of the Civil Rights movement and his feuds with Ralph D. Abernathy, King's successor as president of the SCLC, over leadership, policy, and funding.

Through PUSH Jackson continued to pursue the economic objectives of Operation Breadbasket and expand into areas of social and political development for blacks in Chicago and across the nation. The 197Os saw direct action campaigns, weekly radio broadcasts, and awards through which Jackson protected black homeowners, workers, and businesses, and honored prominent blacks in the U.S. and abroad. He also promoted education through

PUSH-Excel, a spin-off program that focused on keeping inner-city youths in school and providing them with job placement.

Ran for President
Jackson launched his first campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984. His appeals for social programs, voting rights, and affirmative action for those neglected by Reaganomics earned him strong showings in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, New York, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C. He received 3.5 million votes, enough to secure a measure of power and respect at the Democratic convention.

Jackson's 1988 campaign for the Democratic nomination was characterized by more organization and funding than his previous attempt. With the experience he gained from 1984 and new resources, Jackson and his Rainbow Coalition surprised the media and the political pundits. Initially written off as unelectable, Jackson emerged in the primary/caucus season as a serious contender for the nomination. He attracted over 6.9 million votes--from urban blacks and Hispanics, poor rural whites, farmers and factory workers, feminists and homosexuals, and from white progressives wanting to be part of a historic change. In his platform he called for homes for the homeless, comparable worth and day care for working women, a higher minimum wage, a commitment to the family farm, and an all-out war on drugs. "When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground" he told delegates at the party convention on July 19, 1988, "we'll have the power to bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our nation.

After early respectable losses in Iowa and New Hampshire, he won five southern states on Super Tuesday, March 8, 1988. On March 12 he won the caucus in his birth state of South Carolina and three days later finished second in his home state of Illinois. On March 26, 1988 Jackson stunned Dukakis and the rest of the nation in the Michigan caucus: Having won that northern industrial state with 55 percent of the vote, Jackson became the Democratic front-runner. Dukakis later recaptured the lead and the eventual nomination with strong showings in the second half of the primary season.

Jackson then exercised the power of his second-place finish to force his consideration as a vice-presidential running mate and to influence the nature of the Democratic Convention and the issues included on its platform. Although Jackson was not chosen as the vice-presidential running mate, he had succeeded in bringing Americans of all colors to consider a black man for the presidency and vice-presidency.

After the 1988 elections Jackson moved his home from Chicago to Washington, D.C. There he has campaigned against homelessness in the nation's capital. He was considered one of the top contenders to take over as the capital's mayor after Marion Berry was forced out of office by a drug scandal, but Jackson refused to run. Instead, he announced in July of 1990 that he would seek election as the District of Columbia's "statehood senator," a position recently established by the city government to push Congress to grant statehood to the district. He was elected in November and sworn into office in January of 1991. Jackson did not seek re-election after his six-year term as statehood senator ended in 1996, although he continued to advocate statehood for the nation's capital.

From D.C. to Wall Street
In 1997, Jackson shifted his focus from the nation's political capital to its financial capital. Seeing a need for a stronger minority presence on New York's Wall Street, Jackson founded the Wall Street Project. The organization lobbied companies to provide more business and employment opportunities for minorities. The Wall Street Project promoted conscientiousness among African American stockholders who may not realize the influence that they have as shareholders. As Jackson explained to Black Enterprise, "When you go into a meeting as a shareholder, you now have the right to the floor. Now you can walk into a board meeting and say 'Mr. Chairman, I'd like to see a list of our Board of Directors...a list of our employees so we can see where they fit into this company horizontally and vertically." A stockholder has the power to promote greater employment and business opportunities for African Americans.

Prior to founding the Wall Street Project, Jackson's strategy for influencing corporate behavior had been to organize protests. However, a pivotal event occurred in 1996 which helped Jackson decide to change his tactics. When charges had surfaced that Texaco employees had made racist comments, Jackson called New York State Comptroller H. Carl McCall, asking him to join him in picketing Texaco. McCall told Black Enterprise that he responded, "'Jesse, when you own a million shares you don't have to picket.'" Because McCall controlled New York state's investments, he had a great deal of influence with the companies the state had invested in.

With the Wall Street Project, Jackson hopes to give minorities the same influence McCall had with Texaco. Jackson told Black Enterprise. "We empower politically with our vote. Now we must empower economically with our dollar." But not just anyone can vote. Only stockholders have a real say in corporate operations. The purchase of just ten shares of stock, Jackson said, provides a shareholder with enough leverage to promote business opportunities for African Americans. As the stock's value increases, so too does the amount of influence a shareholder has. Jackson told Ebony, "So we have gone from sharecroppers to shareholders. We say to corporate America: We don't want to be just consumers and workers, but investors and partners."

Diplomatic Efforts
Throughout his career as a political and social activist, Jackson has also been a prominent figure in international diplomacy. In 1979 he traveled to South Africa to speak out against apartheid and to the Middle East to try to establish relations between Israel and the Palestinians. In January of 1984 he returned to the Middle East to negotiate the release of Lieutenant Robert Goodman, a black Navy pilot who had been shot down and taken hostage in the region. Later that year he traveled to Cuba to negotiate the release of several political prisoners held there and to Central America, where he spoke out for regional peace. In 1990 Jackson was the first American to bring hostages out of Iraq and Kuwait.

When three U.S. soldiers serving as part of NATO's forces in Yugoslavia were captured by the Yugoslav army in March of 1999, Jackson, along with an interfaith delegation, embarked on a diplomatic mission to negotiate their release. U.S. national security advisor Sandy Berger warned Jackson, as a private citizen, he did not have the authority to offer Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosovic any concessions on behalf of the United States. Berger also warned that Jackson's safety could not be guaranteed. Despite these warnings, Jackson, confident that he could persuade Milsocovic to release the prisoners as a gesture of goodwill, set off on his diplomatic mission. Jackson's confidence was not unfounded and when Jackson returned it was with the three soldiers at his side. The U.S. Senate recognized Jackson's efforts with a commendation.

In May of 1999, Jackson traveled to war-torn Sierra Leone, where he negotiated a cease-fire agreement between Tejan Kabbah, the country's president, and rebel Foday Sankoh. Jackson also negotiated for the release of more than two thousand prisoners of war. One year later, he returned to Sierra Leone to assist once more in the country's peace process.

Sought Answers in Suspicious Hanging Death
When teenager Raynard Johnson was found hanging by a belt from the pecan tree in front of his home in Kokomo Mississippi in 2000, suspicions arose immediately that his death may have been a lynching. Although medical examiners found no evidence of struggle, Johnson's parents could not believe that their son had committed suicide. Jackson did not believe the boy's death was a suicide either. He told Jet, "He had just gotten a computer. He was outgoing. He was in the Top 5 percentile on his test scores. He was very bright....A lot of signs point upwards. He was excited about life."

Jackson's Rainbow Coalition/PUSH launched its own investigation into Johnson's death. Jackson's investigators identified several people who could have been involved in the teenager's death and said that someone may have been angered by Johnson's friendship with two white girls. Authorities, however, said that Johnson's girlfriend had broken up with him shortly before his death and contended that all the evidence was consistent with suicide.

In 2000, Jackson, along with his son, Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., published It's About the Money!: How You Can Get Out of Debt, Build Wealth, and Achieve Your Financial Dreams! The book is a how-to guide for financial independence and security. Jackson explained to Mother Jones that economic self-sufficiency is a vital base for the struggle for freedom. "It costs to send children to college," Jackson said. "It costs to have health insurance." Yet, in a culture of credit card debt, so many Americans do not understand basic economics. With his book, Jackson hoped to change that.

Never Far From Controversy
Jackson has stirred both admiration and criticism. His behavior in the hours immediately following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., was a subject of controversy: Jackson claimed that he had held the dying leader, heard his last words, and had his shirt stained by King's blood. Other SCLC officers present at the murder have disputed those claims. As an organizer Jackson often overstepped his authority in SCLC matters and violated organization policy in a number of his Chicago campaigns. His economic boycotts were criticized by some businessmen as extortion and by some reformers for lacking follow-through. The management of PUSH's people and finances were the subject of close scrutiny and the freewheeling nature of the organization was regularly called into question. Jackson offended some Americans by negotiating with the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), Fidel Castro, and the Marxist Sandinista govenrment of Nicaragua. Jackson's connection with the Black Muslim leader and outspoken anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, as well as the candidate's reference to New York City as "Hymietown", outraged Jews.

However, the same driving ambition to achieve success that is the root of Jackson's weaknesses is also the source of his strength. He is a tireless worker who is fiercely committed to his causes, even when bedridden--Jackson suffers from sickle-cell trait. He is an intelligent, creative, and charismatic leader, and an inspirational speaker capable of archiving numerous details, then using them to encapsulate his agenda along with the aspirations of many Americans. He has a flair for the dramatic that infuses an increasingly tedious political process with life. And finally, Jackson acts while others talk of action. He has become the leading spokesman for Americans forgotten by the power brokers of the political process, especially blacks. In a 1996 speech, Jackson said, "If you go along and get along, you're a coward. Only by principled engagement can you be a force for change and hope." Jackson's life has been one of principled engagement.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full name, Jesse Louis Jackson; original name, Jesse Louis Burns; born on October 8, 1941, in Greenville, SC; son of Noah Robinson (a cotton grader) and Helen Burns Jackson (a hairdresser); adopted by stepfather, Charles Henry Jackson (a postal worker), 1957; married Jacqueline Lavinia Davis, 1964; children: Santita, Jesse Louis, Jr., Jonathan Luther, Yusef Du Bois, Jacqueline Lavinia; grandchildren: Jessica and Jonathan. Education: Attended University of Illinois, 1959-60; North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, B.A., 1964; attended Chicago Theological Seminary, 1964-66; M.Div., Chicago Theological Seminary, 2000. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Baptist. Addresses: Office—National Rainbow Coalition Inc., 30 West Washington, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60602.

AWARDS
Rockefeller grant, c. mid-1960s, Presidential Award, National Medical Association, 1969; Humanitarian Father of the Year, National Father's Day Committee, 1971; Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2000; numerous honorary degrees from colleges and universities, including Pepperdine University, Oberlin College, Oral Roberts Univ, Howard, and Georgetown.

CAREER
Field rep for CORE, 1964; SCLC demonstrator, Selma, 1965; Chicago coordinator of Operation Breadbasket, 1966-67, national dir, 1967-71; founder, Operation PUSH, 1971, executive director, 1971-86, founder, PUSH-Excel, PUSH for Economic Justice; candidate for Democratic presidential candidate, 1983-84, 1987-88; National Rainbow Coalition Inc., Chicago, founder, 1986, national president, 1986-; senator, District of Columbia, 1991-96; TV host, Voices of America with Jesse Jackson; Chicago radio host; columnist, Los Angeles Times Syndicate; founder, the Wall Street Project, 1997; co-author, It's About Money, 2000.

Biography


Jesse Louis Jackson was born on October 8, 1941. He was born in Greenville, South Carolina. Jesse was born to the parents of Helen Burns and Noah Robinson. Helen remarried two years later to a man named Charles Jackson.

Jesse Jackson had a football scholarship at the University of Illinois. He was the quarterback. He decided to leave University of Illinois and return South to attend North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro. That college was an all African American college.As a college senior he became a civil rights leader.

In the mid-1960s, Jackson began working for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC). This was a civil rights organization funded by Martin Luther King Jr. In 1966 Jackson help find the Chicago branch of Operation Breadbasket it was a economic arm to the SCLC. Jesse Jackson also founded a organization called Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) after he was suspended from the SCLC. Jesse Jackson spoke out against racism and militarism.

Jesse Jackson was involved in being the first African-American mayor in Chicago in 1983. Jesse Jackson did many things for the Black community in 1976 he created the PUSH-Excel, this was a program for motivating teens and children to succeed. In 1984 he had a campaign for the Democratic presidential campaign. Jesse Jackson visited South Africa where he would get a big crowd to speak out. In 1979 he toured the Middle East to embrace Yaasar Arafat the then Palestinian leader.

In 1984, Jesse Jackson decided to campaign against of Walter Mondale and Gary Hart in the Democratic presidential primaries. In 1992 Jesse Jackson backed Democratic candidate Bill Clinton during his presidential campaign. Jackson influenced the African-Americans to vote and support Bill Clinton. Jackson received his master of divinity degree from the Chicago Theological Seminary on June 3, 2000.

Jesse Jackson's wife is Jacqueline Lavina Brown they have 5 children.

Jesse Jackson for President I

View Poll Results: Jesse Jackson for President?

As an American Citizen I would vote for him. 2 5.26% -02 nations.

As an American Citizen I would not vote for him. 21 55.26% - 21 nations.

Not American but I would vote for him. 7 18.42% -07 nations.

Not American but I would not vote for him. 8 21.05%-0
08 nations.
Voters: 38.

I just noticed something of 23 American nations 02 would vote for Jesse, 08.70 percent and
21 would not vote for Jesse, 91.30 percent.

Of 15 non American nations 07 would vote for Jesse, 46.67 percent and
08 would not vote for Jesse, 53.33

Post your views and as to the diffrences.

I love math, numbers, statistics, Accounting, Bookkeeping,
systems, thats my thing.

Can Jesse win a Public office in the USA, well it seems to depend on the district, for exsample an African American district, can he win in a non African American district?

Can Jesse win a Public office in Europe?

Jesse Jackson has spent too many years coming to Southern Africa telling us how much our problems are the result of white people - as apposed to the facists and tribalists who have been raping our ecconomies for decades. His concepts of foregn policy would lead to a breakdown of relations between Europe and American and would lead to greater interracial conflicts in the Southern part of Africa - plus if America's constitution requires a division of church and state surely he would be a threat to the constitution.

Jesse Jackson would spell the end of the Republic. His political beliefs ( if you want to dignify them by labeling them that ) are seriously demented, not just far left ... but demented! He would probably be assassinated his first week in office, and not becuase he's black.
Stop using "far left" as a term of abuse and start using it as an accurate description of political beliefs. No Democrat is far left. Some are far right, some are centrist right, and some are centre left.

Stop using "far left" as a term of abuse and start using it as an accurate description of political beliefs. No Democrat is far left. Some are far right, some are centrist right, and some are centre left.

Something you need to learn: Quite a few Democrats are true Leftists. Granted, most of these are in pocket areas (the Northeast, the Monongahela valley, Chicago, California, very small parts of South Texas), but there are still left-leaning Democrats. They're just far from being in the majority.

You're joking, right?

Biography Continued

6 Jun 1963 Arrested in Greensboro, North Carolina for disturbing the peace and inciting a riot.

13 Feb 1984 The Washington Post reports that Jesse Jackson refers to Jews as "Hymies" and New York City as "Hymietown" in private conversations with journalists.

18 Jan 2001 Jackson acknowledges that he fathered a child out of wedlock in 1999 with an aide, Karin Stanford, and used money from his nonprofit Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to pay the woman $40,000 in "moving expenses".

Budweiser Boycott
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 by several of its black employees that they were being denied promotions. Jackson came to the aid of the employees in 1997 shortly after the first EEOC 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, reported that Jackson had demanded $500 each from local black 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 think Jesse Jackson would be a great president. However i dont ever think he would be elected.

Question for the European nations on NS, can Jesse win a public office in Europe?

And what kind of public office ?

Look at how close the poll results are of the non American nations which I assume are mostly Europeans if not I apologize, I am just asking the question not making a judgement either way.

My personal position on Jesse is clear, I cannot vote for Jesse Jackson for anything, im sure I dont have to say why.

Lets start talking about his foreign policy views, economic policy views, social policy views, even if he is a racist and an opportunist as I agree with.

The main question I would like to hear is can he win a public office in Europe and which office?

Question for the European nations on NS, can Jesse win a public office in Europe?

And what kind of public office ?

Look at how close the poll results are of the non American nations which I assume are mostly Europeans if not I apologize, I am just asking the question not making a judgement either way.

My personal position on Jesse is clear, I cannot vote for Jesse Jackson for anything, im sure I dont have to say why.

Lets start talking about his foreign policy views, economic policy views, social policy views, even if he is a racist and an opportunist as I agree with.

The main question I would like to hear is can he win a public office in Europe and which office?

I'd happily deport him to France! :D

I think Jesse Jackson would be a great president. However i dont ever think he would be elected.

he is a gigantic buffoon...a caricature if you will of a person.

like another poster stated..he is a media whore and a rascist of the worst sort.

bush makes me physically sick..yet if forced,i would vote for him over jesse...wheres the camera.... jackson...at least i would just be vomiting rather then sticking my head in an oven :confused:

Ok, one last try on my question on Jesse Jackson, I will put it this way, If Jesse Jackson were a white European racist or not, with his economic, political and social views, could he win a Public office in Europe and which kind of office, a district office, a leader office, etc.
Thank you.

The question is based on the fact that I see a close vote on the Not American part of the Poll and I assume most are Europeans, if not I apologize for that.

Ok, one last try on my question on Jesse Jackson, I will put it this way, If Jesse Jackson were a white European racist or not, with his economic, political and social views, could he win a Public office in Europe and which kind of office, a district office, a leader office, etc.
Thank you.

Could Pat Robertson? They're about the same.

Good Post Markreich.