(Je$$e HiJack$on) Jackson says NAACP must help save auto industry

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/3/09 | Corey Williams - ap

[NormsRevenge]

DETROIT – The NAACP has fought for a century to bring equal and civil rights to blacks, but the Rev. Jesse Jackson believes the organization's current battle is to help the troubled U.S. economy and struggling domestic auto industry.

"We must now save the entire industry from itself," Jackson said as part of the keynote address Sunday night at the Detroit NAACP's 54th Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner at Cobo Center.

"We cannot have joy while Chrysler is in bankruptcy and GM is in line. There is a sense of joy because it's high noon in our politics, but it's midnight in our economy."

[NormsRevenge]

Where’s Rev. Al?

The ‘Looters of the Left’ are looking for a little ‘love’.

[fieldmarshaldj]

So the NAACP is going to do for the auto industry what it’s done to Black people ?

[NormsRevenge]

FIGHT FOR FREEDOM FUND DINNER

http://www.detroitnaacp.org/specialprograms/fightforfreedom.asp

[ethics]

Buy Honda, Toyota, Nissan or Kia!

What is the possible risk in buying a Chrysler of GM product?

[stevem]

This should be entertaining.

[NormsRevenge]

Founded in 1956..

What a line-up of past speakers and entertainers over the years...

Beginning with Thurgood Marshall as the first keynote speaker, the Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner has brought to its platform a virtual constellation of distinguished speakers and entertainers, among them, Barbara Jordan, Roy Wilkins, Howard Thurman, Senator Edward Brooks, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Governor Mario Cuomo, Senator Ted Kennedy, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Joint Chief of Staff, Chairman, General Colin Powell, Ron Brown, Kweisi Mfume, Lee Iaccoca, Sammy Davis, Jr., Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker, Dick Gregory, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Vice President Al Gore, President Bill Clinton, Danny Glover, Julian Bond,Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama, Manning Marable, Congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee, and Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright.

[freebilly]

Jesse smells money....

[xcamel]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243435/posts

[Mr. Jeeves]

There is a sense of joy because it's high noon in our politics, but it's midnight in our economy."

And there is a sense of dementia in any observer who can't recognize that the two are inextricably linked. :)

[datura]

Let me see if I have this straight - blacks are suffering disproportionately due to the car companies failures and layoffs. Therefore, that means that the UAW membership is mainly black?

So they are the ones responsible for the extremely expensive wage contracts that bankrupted the car companies, and now we should be bailing out black people?

WTF???

Weren't we already doing that by paying their damn wages when we bought Detroit's cars? Does it ever end? Or now that we have a black president, we will finally be paying reparations for slavery? F'ing racists....

[datura]

Excellent point.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Jesse smells money.

[nascarnation]

Those jobs must be saved, Jackson said in his 25-minute speech. "The cause of the workers is a moral cause," he said. "It's time for a righteous rebellion, civil disobedience."

Does that mean Jesse and friends will be doing sit-ins at dealerships that sell non Government/Gettelfinger cars?

[Cheetahcat]

I can see it now a new Black Holiday ,New Cadillac model day.

[popdonnelly]

Go buy a car, fool.

[popdonnelly]

All these left/liberal Democrats are going to do for the auto industry what they did for the City of Detroit.

[DustyMoment]

(Je$$e HiJack$on) Jackson says NAACP must help save auto industry

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[popdonnelly]

They had Jeremiah Wright? Couldn’t they find a real minister?

[rovenstinez]

Isn’t he part of the problem? Wasn’t his renegades part of the hijacking of the corporate auto makers to get more money for his boonies? While he was procreatin’, gettin’ his picture taken at the White House? The NAACP needs to find another spokes person.