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Gay Man Charges Jesse Jackson With Harassment and Discrimination: Most Media Mum
NewsBusters ^ | 5/1/11 | Mike Bates

Posted on 05/01/2011 7:07:27 PM PDT by Mike Bates

On April 15, The Chicago Sun-Times reported on its Web site, "Jesse Jackson denies gay worker’s harassment, discrimination claims." The article began:

A spokesman for the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Thursday denied a claim from a man who says he was fired from the civil rights leader’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition because he is gay.

Tommy R. Bennett filed a complaint with the city of Chicago’s Commission on Human Relations last year, alleging Jackson fired him unjustly and that the civil rights leader forced him to perform “uncomfortable” tasks, including escorting various women to hotel rooms to meet Jackson for sex.

The piece ended noting that a gay publication, The Windy City Times, had reported Bennett's allegations earlier in the week. The Windy City Times story included more salacious details, such as the complainant's charge that Jackson directed him to apply cream to a rash between Jackson's legs; the minister told Bennett about one of his high school instructors, a gay man, who served as Jackson's teacher with benefits; and Bennett's allegation that Jackson wanted to have sex with the Rainbow Coalition employee.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: jessejackson; rainbowpush

1 posted on 05/01/2011 7:07:35 PM PDT by Mike Bates
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2 posted on 05/01/2011 7:08:43 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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3 posted on 05/01/2011 7:14:02 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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Yuck. Wish I hadn’t read this one.


4 posted on 05/01/2011 7:18:44 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
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To: Mike Bates
forced him to perform “uncomfortable” tasks

What could be more uncomfortable than having something shoved up your butt?

5 posted on 05/01/2011 7:26:44 PM PDT by twhitak
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Sorry!


6 posted on 05/01/2011 10:31:43 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Sorry!


7 posted on 05/01/2011 10:31:52 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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