Posted on 06/16/2017 10:14:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Civil right leader Rev. Jesse Jackson paid enormous tribute to the late Martin McGuinness this week in a rousing speech to open the Museum of Free Derry.
Comparing the Derryman, who died earlier this year after a short illness, to the likes of Martin Luther King Jr and Nelson Mandela, the activist laid a wreath at the Sinn Féin leader’s grave, meeting with other members of the political party to pay tribute.
“It was a great honor to welcome the Rev. Jesse Jackson to Derry today, as he laid a wreath at the grave of Martin McGuinness, accompanied by Martin’s wife, Bernie and daughter, Fionnuala,” Sinn Féin Foyle MLA, Karen Mullan told Derry Now. “Rev. Jackson has played a significant role in the development of the peace process here in Ireland, but also served as a voice for oppressed people throughout the world.”
“In the name of Jesus of Galilee and Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is only appropriate that on this occasion we fondly remember Martin McGuinness, a man of Derry, a passionate man, a commander in the Irish Republican Army who fought with everything he had for his people, but who also, like Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress in South Africa, had the capacity to transform himself and the IRA’s political arm, Sinn Fein, into instruments of peace and reconciliation after decades of warfare known as The Troubles,” said Rev. Jackson. “He saw peace and reconciliation as power, as power beyond the limits of war.” …
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The mandellas were Marxist murderers who would put a gas soaked tire around whiteys neck and light it.
LOL! Is Jesse still alive?
In an interview a few years ago McGuinness tacitly admitted firing the first shot on Bloody Sunday.
Must be a lot of money or something special to be had over in Ireland because the Democrats keep going to that trough... the Clintons, Obama, and Jesse...
I wondered what Jesse Jackson was up to lately. That’ll learn me!
Is Jesse the best Sinn Fein could get for a celebrity speaker?
Yeah...cause when I think of high morals, I think of Jesse Jackson (rolling eyes)
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