Did Jesse Jackson really say this? I can’t picture it.
As a matter of fact, Jesse followed-up later saying how it’s the only quote of his that the right-wing uses.
Yes, he did. A long time ago, sometime back in the early 1990s, when Democrats were falling all over themselves crafting anti-crime legislation in the wake of the crack cocaine fueled violence, and Mrs. Clinton’s “super-predators” descriptors.
I’m reasonably certain Action Jackson has probably apologized profusely since that time for his hateful, ill-advised statements. He couldn’t get away with saying anything like that today in any event.
Jesse Jackson really did say it.
Even leftist quora confirms it:
Goodreads confirms:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5978-there-is-nothing-more-painful-to-me-at-this-stage
Baltimore Sun:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/1993/12/03/jesse-jacksons-message-is-too-advanced-for-most/
More detail on the original source:
Remarks at a meeting of Operation PUSH in Chicago (27 November 1993). Quoted in “Crime: New Frontier – Jesse Jackson Calls It Top Civil-Rights Issue” by Mary A. Johnson, 29 November 1993, Chicago Sun-Times (ellipsis in original). Partially quoted in US News & World Report (10 March 1996)
Yes, before he decided he wanted to run for president as a Democrat. Jesse was once a sensible man but then found out there was more money to be made by being a race baiter.
Yes, I believe it was from a speech he was giving in 1993... YMMV