My girlfriend and mother lived in twin highrises on 55th street in Chicago, and my friend described always bumping into JJ and his mistress, who kept an apartment there. Neither mother nor I ever saw it, though.
I knew JJ from Theological Seminary housing, where we had our first apartment. When he moved in, he took over our apartment because we had 2 bedrooms and we moved down the hall. We used to “interact” on Operation Breadbasket signs in the laundry room. During one floor party I had my first experience with someone who believed their rights superceded mine. He explained that he believed society was rich enough to support people who CHOSE not to work. I’d never bumped into that philosophy before.
I hosted a political talk radio show at a local radio station in 1993 - 1994 four nights a week. Loved doing it despite also holding down a regular full-time gig and the long days of working both.
One day someone from JJ's "Rainbow PUSH" organization comes in, looks around and declares "There ain't enough black people working here!" In fact there were NO black people working there.
Anyway, Station G.M. comes out of his office and ushers this black "gentleman" into his office. Twenty minutes later, same black "gentleman" exits the Station G.M.'s office holding an envelope, smiling broadly saying "see you again next year!"
Sure enough, about the same time the next year came along, same black "gentleman" comes in, declares there "ain't enough black people working here!" (there still weren't any...) and leaves 20 minutes later with an envelope once again saying "see you again next year!"
JJ is not about working to better conditions for his fellow blacks. JJ is all about enriching himself at the expense of other blacks, whites, big corporations, etc.. Ever read the book "Shakedown?"