Goodbye, Rev. Jackson.

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Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson has passed. He wasn't perfect, but he stuck with what he knew was right.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jes ... 40730.html

Certainly was a thorn to white supremacists RIP

All I know about this guy is he spent his whole life trying to get the N-word banned from television. Kind of a weird hill to die on IMHO. I mean, suppose they did ban the N-word. I don't see how that would materially improve anyone's life. It's just a symbolic gesture that doesn't actually mean anything. It wouldn't solve any of the injustices black people face, like police brutality, job discrimination, etc.

when I was in the army, one of my barrackmates played basketball with him back in the day, and he described running into him physically was like running into a stone statue. a tough man for tough times.

He definitely would've provided stiff competition against H.W. Bush in 1988. Unfortunately him calling NYC "Hymietown" 4 years earlier doomed his Presidential aspirations

he would have probably made a good president..Rest in Peace Jessie Jackson . We vould use him nowadays ,

I guess Jesse Jackson was okay, but the only civil rights organization I ever had any use for was the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) with Roy Innis as the President of CORE.

That is, as far as I remember, the only political organization that I was ever tempted to send a donation to.

It's too bad he had to shed his mortal coil when that orange personification of bigotry is in office.

^^^ Black civil rights in the US has taken a battering following BLM. Instead of MLKs and Jesse Jacksons, BLM attracted greedy opportunists
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/05/ ... es-matter/

In addition there was widespread condemnation from small business owners (including many POCs) already struggling with COVID shutdowns then having to deal with unnecessary levels of vandalism from BLM protestors. Optics were terrible.

I think the era of brave non-violent men of integrity like the reverend Jesse Jackson fought for real civil rights issues is largely over. Jackson also had to fight wars on multiple fronts against white citizens groups (very active in the 60s/70s) wanting to maintain housing and school segregation, against far right groups (KKK) wanting to assassinate him. against state and federal law makers wanting him arrested, from police who were instructed to harass him and most insidious of all, the FBI who collected dirt on his personal life in order to compromise and neutralise him.

Fact he survived and still fought for black civil rights to a ripe old age was a miracle given his contemporaries like MLK, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers were all extinguished.

His most famous photo was taken after MLK's assassination. RIP, perhaps the last great black civil rights warrior.