Posted on 11/24/2012 11:00:50 AM PST by Steelfish
A Family Business In Disarray
By MONICA DAVEY November 23, 2012
IF theres a crisis unfolding somewhere, its a good bet that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. is on his way.
Over the years, Mr. Jackson, 71, who has a fondness for staring into the lens of a television camera, has jetted to tense locales around the world to negotiate the release of hostages. When President Clintons White House was engulfed in the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Mr. Jackson showed up to offer spiritual guidance, including some advice he described to a reporter at the time: Keep your eyes open and your mouth shut. And dont panic.
Recently, Mr. Jackson marched in the rain, and was arrested, with workers losing their jobs in Freeport, Ill. He popped up in Baltimore to oppose plans for a youth detention facility. And he appeared in Cincinnati just before Election Day, denouncing long lines as proof of repress-the-vote tactics.
For all his mastery at inserting himself into and shaping a story line, though, he appears less sure how to cope with a crisis much closer to home: Mr. Jacksons oldest and namesake son, Jesse L. Jackson Jr., has vanished from public view, grappling for months with bipolar disorder. He is also the subject of a federal criminal investigation, and he announced on Wednesday that he would be resigning his seat in Congress less than three weeks after he won re-election.
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A faux extortion racket usually encounters difficulty when the victims find out what’s going on, and also when new competition (Al Sharpton) shows up.
Would the New York Times have written such a lengthy and flowery obituary for a Republican who resigned in disgrace?
I always figured that was why Øbongo hides his birth certificate ;-)
Has anyone seen JJ jr ? Is he even alive ?
If I want to be a lawyer, thats not enough, added Mr. Jackson, who has a law degree and a masters in theology. I need to be a Supreme Court justice one day. If I wanted to be an elected official, thats not enough. One day, son, you may be president.
I actually feel sorry for this guy. I hope he finds something to do that feeds his soul and helps him make peace with his life. Like pottery or carpentry. He cannot take a high-pressure job any more if he hopes to get well.
I don’t feel sorry for him one tiny bit.
Money going out and not coming in is hard for any business.
Has anyone asked if the ‘bipolar’ deal was always an pre-arrest excuse for criminal activity? Like he was setting up a sob story for the jury - before the jury even existed?
And the Lord replied: To the Penitentiary.
It would be Al Sharpton.
>>A faux extortion racket usually encounters difficulty
I think Coulter’s new book mentions that about Jackson (the scams not working anymore?). Years ago I read about about Jesse: “SHAKEDOWN” by Kenneth Timmerman.
Frank Zappa:
Rhymin’ Man,
Tall and tan,
Rhyme or reason,
Play your hand —
Rhyme on this — rhyme on that
Oh, you naughty Democrat!
They say when Doctor King got shot,
Jesse hatched an awful plot,
Dipped his hands in the Doctor’s blood,
‘N rubbed his shirt like playin’ with mud
Looked around for all the press,
Said: “Check me out, my name is Jess!
I’ll be known from towns ‘n farms —
Doctor King died in my arms!”
A few years later, legend says,
Rhymin’ man made a run for Prez
Farrakhan made him a clown,
Over there near Hymie-Town
Said he was a diplomat —
Hobbin’ an-a-knobbin’ with Arafat
Castro was simpatico,
Though the U.S. voters, they said: “No!”
“I just had a horrible thought... Can you imagine if Jesse Jackson and Gloria Allred had a child. “
DAMMIT! Now you are going to have to rock me to sleep.
I recognize them all except the woman. Who is she? Wanda?
The problem of the famous old civil rights “reverends” is that they enriched themselves on mining guilt, hate and resentment from real times gone by in their lives and raised a wealthy, entitled generation connected to them in fine, racially perferred style for the past thirty or fourty years. Jesse, Jr.’s generation is like America’s race royalty.
The old guys have credibility because they lived at the time of the civil rights movement; but the generation replacing them have not. So all the replacements can do is spew shallow Black racist slogans and resentment because they are total strangers to the old guys’ past.
It’s like bitter Soledad on CNN. She’s a racist rich girl who spews Black power hate slogans as if she’s living sixty years ago in a Southern shack. She’s tasked with beating the dead horse Jesse’s people and previous generations to him already slayed. She’s been taught it is her duty and fame to park herself next to the decaying carcass and whine about the stink. Liberalism’s racial mentality is a self destructive racist, ugly and shallow mind of illusion.
Jesse, Jr. was actually disadvantaged by his dad’s racial shakedown existence. Keeping alive racial victimhood and conflict was his father’s profession and he can’t follow in his father’s path because Jr. has never experienced what his father did and will never undo systematic segregation like his father’s generation actually witnessed. He’s a rich, advantaged black guy who grew up among other rich advantaged black children just like any rich, advantaged white guy. He’s not special like his dad because he’s a total stranger to his father’s time and cause.
But Jesse, Sr. could never release junior from the illusion that he had to carry his father’s torch which has lost it’s righteous flame in this post segregation era. Jesse lives an illusion that he’s a righteous Christian reverend and leader (who cheats on his wife and shakes down a dishonest bribe from liberal CEO’s) and is fighting a battle of long gone white segregation. That illusion is his meaning and gold mine.
Living Jesse’s lie may have driven his son crazy. Soledad’s made it big but her sassy bitterness and racist smallness is based on an illusion or racial righteousness and moral superiority, too. She’ll flip out if she keeps it up.
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