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Washington (CNN)-The Rev. Jesse Jackson endorsed Hillary Clinton on Saturday, continuing a recent string of high-profile endorsements for the presumptive Democratic nominee. Jackson, speaking in Chicago, said he trusts that Clinton will look out for the interests of marginalized communities including refugees, immigrants and the poor. "We trust her to work on health care, to fight for the poor ... for the willingness to fight for civil rights," Jackson said. Jackson, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1984 and 1988, endorsed Clinton at the site of a memorial recognizing the hundreds of children killed in the city...

Disgraced Jackie Robinson West Little League Team Hires Lawyer A day after getting stripped of their national crown, officials from Chicago's Jackie Robinson West Little League team appeared Thursday with a newly hired lawyer who pledged to review Little League International's investigation to make sure it was done fairly. "I want to make sure that whatever rules and regulations applied to Jackie Robinson West were applied to every other team," the lawyer, Victor Henderson, said at a news conference. Henderson said he's also told the players, and team officials, that they should not give up their claim to the title...

CLEVELAND (AP) - Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert got in another word about the messy, heartbreaking split with LeBron James. He promised it's his last one. On Monday, Gilbert said he strongly disagrees with Rev. Jesse Jackson's criticism of his recent comments about James, who announced last week he was leaving Cleveland after seven seasons to join fellow All-Stars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat. Shortly after James' announcement, Gilbert fired off an incendiary letter to Cavs fans, vilifying the 25-year-old and calling his decision to bolt Cleveland as "narcissistic" and "cowardly behavior." He also guaranteed his team...

Jackson in the House [Robert Costa] Rev. Jesse Jackson has appeared outside of the House chamber. He tells National Review Online that as he walked through the anti-Obamacare rally, he was subject to racial slurs — "words that I have heard for so long, a spirit of meanness and fear." He says the "ideological lines being drawn resemble a civil war." The protesters, he says, are being "programmed by the elitists to demonize . . . just Iike they demonized Dr. King and Nelson Mandela." He adds that he will stay at the Capitol to "watch history." 03/21 06:02 PM...

So, I guess Mr. Jackson thinks it's health-care holding down the black man this time...Just yesterday he said "can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man," and then he goes on to proclaim "Among the black and the poor, the infant mortality rate is higher, life expectancy is shorter, poverty is growing and unemployment is highest," he said. Well hell yeah, if you are pregnant and do crack, your babies die; if you live in the hood - you get shot; if you don't finish high school and get a college education you can expect poverty in...

Jesse "the pimp(he gets paid, you get screwed)" Jackson says: "You Can't Vote Against Health Care And Call Yourself A Black Man." Well, I thought we were supposed to call ourselves African-American men anyway. Jackson is irrelevant but I had to mention this because I ran into this kind of thinking recently in my personal life. Black people have to end their self-imposed stay on the Democrats intellectual, political and ideological plantation. Do all white people agree? Then, why the hell should all black people agree? Mindless puppets like Jackson do not own blackness. They don't possess some special credentials...

A friend of mine told me of a recent conversation at his family's dinner table that keeps reverberating in my mind. His wife, a physician, also performs abortions. And their 9-year-old son -- hearing the words and curious about its meaning -- looked up from his plate and asked, "What is an abortion?" His mother tried carefully to describe it in simple terms. "But," said her son, "that means killing the baby." The mother then explained that there are certain months during which an abortion cannot be performed, with very few exceptions. The 9-year-old shook his head. "But," he said,...

MIDI - I SAW MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS I saw Jesse Jackson, camera whore...just outside the walls of Tookie's house He showed his pearly whites...it was really quite a sight For lowlife Tookie Williams he was putting up a fight Oh, I saw Jesse Jackson, camera whore...that race-baiter is a piece of work We wondered, was his mistress there...do you really think he'd dare Jesse Jackson's such a phony jerk I saw Jesse Jackson, camera whore...he was asked to give the victims' names He's taken by surprise...he could not believe his eyes The only answer heard was that he...

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Steve Barrett reporting that "The Reverend Jessie Jackson has accepted the family's invitation to join the demonstrators outside the hospice where Terri is dying." 1. Is this turning into way too much of a circus? 2. Want to bet the race-baiting poverty pimp invited himself?

The Rev. Jesse Jackson praised New York Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday as "Sister Hillary," after Clinton cited his efforts to overturn the presidential election by challenging the Electoral College vote in Ohio. Speaking at his annual Wall Street Project fundraiser, Jackson said "Sister Hillary" had been an important ally in his fight for those "traumatized by what happened to us as a people and a nation in Ohio." He called Clinton "a light in dark places," who has "stood on the right side of history," according to quotes picked up by the New York Sun. The praise for Clinton came...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson stopped in Arkansas on Friday to motivate voters to go to the polls on Tuesday, urging blacks to make their voices heard in the voting booth. "Arkansas is now in the mix to determine the track of the country," Jackson told a crowd of about 100 gathered in a meeting room at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Little Rock. "The big issue is to vote, people in Arkansas, is to vote their hopes and not their fears," he said at a last minute stop in Little Rock. "The big deal is...

Sen. Trent Lott is in trouble. His suggestion that the country would be better off if it had elected Strom Thurmond's pro-segregation Dixiecrat Party in 1948 has embarrassed Republicans. Lott, selected by his colleagues as the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, has revealed too much--particularly for a party that rose to power by offering sanctuary to Southern whites after the civil rights movement. Belatedly, Lott is denouncing racism and segregation and apologizing for his remarks. But Lott's problem--and that of the Republicans who selected him as their leader--is that his rhetoric fits his record. The pronouncement is...

StopDemocrats.com is asking for Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) to Step Aside. The petition reads: Recent comments by Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) involving Senator Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential candidacy supporting segregation have created a controversy that may force the Senator to step aside as leader of the Senate Republicans. This petition asks that the same standards be applied to Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) ,who is the current President pro tempore of the US Senate, and demands that he resign from any leadership post in the 108th Congress for saying the following racist comments on National television 21 months ago. "My old...

Get over It December 04, 2002 Am I the only one that’s about sick of the race card being played by the Jesse Jackasses of the world? I thought when this whole Trent Lott remark made in tribute to the 100th birthday to Sen. Strom Thurmond was made, it would just blow over, considering it was nothing more than that, a tribute and show of respect for the former Democrat. But oh no, because Lott is a Republican and soon to take over as Senate Majority Leader for the ousted Tommy Daschle, the race baiters are livid. I ask you...

Saying that "no one is above the law," Jesse Jackson recommended Thursday night that President Bush should be "subject to due process" for his sale of Harken Energy stock twelve years ago in a transaction that Democrats say was suspicious. Jackson recommended Bush's prosecution during an interview on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," during the following exchange. ALAN COLMES: Should he be looked into? Should his actions be looked into when he was with Harken? JACKSON: Of course, because no one is above the law..... COLMES: .....A lot of people think that what George Bush did himself is very...