The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny [BOND] commemorated Martin Luther King's birthday on Monday with its fifth annual rally to repudiate the media's favorite civil rights leader, Rev. Jesse Jackson. Held outside Rev. Jackson's Los Angeles headquarters, BOND's chief, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, said he hoped the rally would spotlight how Jackson had misappropriated the legacy of Dr. King to divide America.
"We hold this rally on Dr. King's birthday because we want to show the contrast between Dr. King's dream and Jesse Jackson's nightmare," Rev. Peterson told Linda Chavez, the former U.S. Commissioner on Civil Rights under President Reagan who now hosts a nationally syndicated show on the Liberty Radio Network.
"Dr. King said that one day we would become one nation under God," Rev. Peterson contended. "But Jesse Jackson's nightmare is that we are more divided over race than ever."
Rev. Peterson said that Rev. Jackson had helped "brainwash" black Americans to think that white racism is still their biggest problem in a bid to encourage an unnecessary dependence on his leadership. And the results have been disasterous.
"Black people don't need leaders," the BOND chief told Chavez. "They need fathers and mothers to get married and guide their own children in the right way to go, so that kids can learn from their parents about leadership."
