Posted on 11/11/2012 9:36:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday said that President Obamas reelection was a great victory, but that it would be incomplete with a reconstruction of urban America and an investment in the communities where the blacks who voted overwhelmingly for the president live.
Were happy and full of pride, in the presidents reelection, Jackson told the crowd at the Saturday morning forum at Rainbow/PUSH headquarters, 930 E. 50th St., but our houses remain raggedy our schools remain closed.
Despite attempts at voter suppression in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, Jackson said, blacks turned out en masse to vote, enduring waits that stretched into hours in many places. We waited, we voted, we believed, Jackson said. Now we want to get well.
We voted early, we voted long. Our votes won, he said.
Rev. Jackson, who spoke longer, louder, and more forcefully than he has in some time at the Saturday morning Rainbow/PUSH meeting, asked the crowd, What do we want? We want, we want, we want, we deserve, we deserve a return on our investment.
Whats good for us is good for everybody. Whats good for blacks is good for everybody., he said. We bled too much, we died too young, we cried too much, we prayed too long, now we want a return on our investment.
Referring to those voter suppression efforts, he said, these acts of meanness had unintended consequences. Rather than keeping blacks and Latinos away from the polls, voter ID measures and the curtailing of access to the voting booths made people more determined to vote. Suppression became stimulation and people fought back, he said.
We fought back, and the battle was won, but the war still remains, he said. If we vote and dont bargain we get nothing. A Jacuzzi filled with stagnant water will not get you well, Jackson said. You have to stir the water. Jackson said blacks, who voted for Barack Obama for state senator, for U.S. Senator, and now twice as President of the United States, should demand, bargain, and march if necessary, for an end to patterns of race discrimination, (for) our share of jobs. We want faster public transportation to connect us to where the jobs are.
He said black American also needs access to capital, noting, Its cruel to say. jump in the pool, when there is no water.
He also called for fair trade, a domestic trade zone. We need a domestic OPEC, he said. In Chicago, for example, there are 100,000 vacant homes or abandoned lots; 40,000 in Baltimore. If we were to rebuild 25 percent, if we take down the boards and put in window panes, fix the broken sidewalks, cut the grass, fix the roofing, wed create more jobs than there are people, just rebuilding where we live.
Jackson said, there must be a plan for reconstruction of urban America.
Saying that automobile companies and banks got bailouts, were the people who provided the votes we want to be bailed out. We need jobs, education, healthcare now. If we can be targeted for voter registration and voter turnout, target us for reconstruction, now.
We are the new mainstream, Jackson said. We are the America of shared hopes and shared dreams. We have the power, we have the votes.
We waited, we voted, we believed, now we want to get well. He then asked the crowd, Do you want to get well? Are you willing to fight to get well?
Its time to sing a new song, of joy and hope, Jackson said.
Its time to march again. March for healthcare, march for jobs. When we march great things come our way.
40 acres and a mule?
Do mules survive well in Africa?
No Hope; No Change For the Blacks!
No Hope; no Change for the blacks pt2
Jackson may be the only one who thinks he'll get one.
JJ is always lookin’ for the shakedown.
Well, Jesse...what should it be? Scrub your sons dirty crimes, save his congressional seat? Obama is telling the homosexuals to pound sand now that they helped elect him and there’s this: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/110812-632759-obama-to-wield-bigger-disparate-impact-club.htm?src=SThru
I sort of think a couple of GOP members of Congress should propose a reparations bill just to create havoc.
Talk about the ultimate wedge issue.
Lets see how many white liberals sign onto it and then see how much of the white vote the Dems manage to hold on to next time if they pass it.
You betcha and hence the back off regarding his support for homosexual marriage.
The black preachers weren’t happy about that at all.
I don’t know. Blacks in our area of N. Virginia are dressed to the HILT, drive Mercedes, Altimas, Lexus cars ... are swanked out to the max ...I don’t know where they live, but they sure do look stylish when out in public.
I don’t see them as suffering all that much. I, on the other hand, am a middle aged white woman who wears 10 year old sweaters with holes in them and drives my daughter’s compact to save gas. Gotta stay out of debt and save up for those tax hikes comin’ down the road.
What keeps black people from cleaning up their own neighborhoods, why do they need government to do it for them?
Let's see:
49 million people on food stamps, an all-time high;
1 in 6 American's receiving Welfare;
23.5 million people under/unemployed;
1 in 5 American's on Medicaid;
Obama's home-town has highest murder rate in country;
School's in Obama's home town have less than 50% graduation rate;
Blacks are the overwhelmingly pre-dominant prison population;
TRILLIONS of dollars wasted in the "war on poverty";
For once, I may have to agree with the dishonorable race-baiting poverty pimp Jesse Jackass.
But then, he had a very big hand in creating this mess by taking money from the very people (blacks) who could least afford to give it to him, while he lives a life of priviledge and luxury while his donor's do not.
I've said this for decades that Jesse Jackson ought to be ashamed of himself for taking money out of poor people's pockets and food out of their children's mouths, but as we know he has no shame!
They might not have been happy about it, but they voted for Obamao all the same. Same thing for the otherwise regular church-going black folks where I work. It’s a severely contorted twist of rhetoric for them to explain why they voted for him. All the while, their motivation to vote for Obama had nothing to do with the gospel and remains unsaid.
Translation: Wheres my free stuff?
Reconstruction of urban America sounds like a euphemism for pillaging the taxpaying population.
What the heck does this mean?
Maybe they want limousines to drive them to work real fast? Or free taxi service. Or free Jaguars to drive to work? Very bizarre statement to make.
Exactly WHAT church is Jesse Jackson a “reverend” of?
Jesse means bullet trains. The ones built with lots of high-priced white union labor.
I think the black community should have access to jobs. Best return they could get for a lock-step racial vote. That won’t happen with the Stalinist in charge.
I think the black community should have access to jobs. Best return they could get for a lock-step racial vote. That won’t happen with the Stalinist in charge.
I think the black community should have access to jobs. Best return they could get for a lock-step racial vote. That won’t happen with the Stalinist in charge.
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