[Verginius Rufus]

A Google search for "Toyota Jesse Jackson" turned up mostly items from 2001 and 2002. It was in 2001 that Jackson pretended to believe that a Toyota ad was racist. Toyota agreed to a $7.8 billion payoff to prevent a boycott...but it isn't clear how much actually went to Jackson himself or his organization (it sounds like it was mostly a commitment to spend more on various "diversity" programs).

Toyota seems to have been funding Farrakhan and MALDEF as well.

[Obadiah]

Well, that certainly is discouraging.

[kcvl]

7/13/2005

PRESS RELEASE: Toyota Sponsored Farrakhan Speech; Japanese Carmaker Asked to Repudiate Farrakhan and End Support for Jesse Jackson


2/4/2002

Toyota letter denying payoff to Jesse Jackson


http://tinyurl.com/mfryx