Posted on 03/15/2005 7:17:24 PM PST by NCjim
Michael Jackson has been starting his trial days by praying with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the minister and the singer's spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Michael Jackson receives advice from the activist minister on both spiritual and personal issues, said Raymone K. Bain, the singer's spokeswoman.
``He speaks to the Rev. Jesse Jackson every morning,'' Bain said after Jackson's child molestation case recessed for the afternoon Tuesday. ``They've known each other for a long time.''
She said the singer usually wakes up at about 4:30 a.m., and talks to Rev. Jackson for 15 to 20 minutes. The two talk to each other by phone and pray together, she said.
Earlier in the case the pop star received advice and security from members of the Nation of Islam.
Rev. Jackson said in a telephone interview that the entertainer and his family are Jehovah's Witnesses and the prayer they share is nondenominational.
Rev. Jackson said he speaks to the entertainer in the morning and the evening.
``I counsel him and his family,'' he said.
He said his main message to them is to ``stay focused.''
``He is serious. He is focused,'' Rev. Jackson said of the pop star's demeanor.
``This is a difficulty for all involved, the accuser and the accused. ... He will survive this,'' Rev. Jackson said.
He also said that it was unfair that Michael Jackson's jury has no black members and he challenged a reporter to imagine a situation in which a white person would be charged with molestation and have a predominantly black jury.
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What's black and comes in little white cans?
Yeah. I thought Jesse only dealt with black folks.
Why is Jackson wearing Bubble's clothes to court?
One of a kind. Jesse Jackson has , thru his OPERATION PUSH been blackmailing scores of American corperations for years in order to extract money from them so that he won't sue them for discriminating against Blacks. This can be termed nothing less than molestation of corporate America.
Michael Jackson has been luring little boys to his Neverland ranch, and engaging in child molestation for his own perverted pleasure.
We're talking about two of the biggest immoral scoundrels in America. They don't pray together - they prey together.
Obviously nobody has told Jessie that Michael is broke.
Jesse needs to tell Michael to get a mistress.
Oh yes, the child molester seeking advice from that fine, upstanding, pillar of society, Mr. Morality himself.
What a joke.
We know how one votes, any bets on how Mr. Plastic votes?
LVM
LOL
Isn't it the truth! This is a guy whose music I enjoyed in the 80s. What a freak he has turned out to be.
We're talking about two of the biggest immoral scoundrels in America. They don't pray together - they prey together.
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And isn't it amazing THAT THEY ARE ALL EXTREME LIBERALS!!! Oh, what a suprise...THE CREM DE LA CREM OF OUR SOCIETY.
This is just right up cousin Jesse's alley, counseling sexual predators.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Hey, when I was a kid, we would pretend we were going to marry either Michael Jackson or Donny Osmond........... both seemed like a great catch at the time! lol
Double-barrelled Mega-PING! to both lists! If you want on, FReepmail me!
I'm surprised the good reverend would give him the time of day, now that he's a poor white woman.
I wish the media would focus 1/100th on our African Americans who fight and die for this country rather than Michael and Jessie Jackson.
These are real Americans--and they are heros.
I thought Jackson was in the "Nation of Islam"?
Teddy, Barnie, Jessie, Michael, Jane, John, Barbara, Meathead, Hillary, Boxer.. the list is practicly endless.
Two thoughts come to mind when I read this...
What church is it that Jesse belongs to?
and
Isn't this the Blind leading the Blind... or the Blind guiding the Blind....
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