Posted on 11/03/2013 1:00:08 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.S. south is “the land of the free, the home of genocide,” civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson repeatedly said Wednesday in a speech that also implied former President Ronald Reagan was a racist.
College news outlet Campus Reform provided TheBlaze an audio recording of Jackson telling students at Furman University that Reagan and former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater both sought to sustain segregation.
“Goldwater and Reagan – had they been successful, it would have been illegal for blacks and whites to play together on a Saturday afternoon,” he said. “You couldn’t have had the Carolina Panthers behind the cotton curtain playing the Atlanta Falcons … it would have been illegal.”
Jackson doubled down on his claim, saying basketball legend Michael Jordan could have never played basketball at the University of North Carolina had Reagan and Goldwater had their way.
“Michael Jordan couldn’t have gone to UNC … it would have been ineligible for him to play at UNC,” he said. “You couldn’t have had the Olympics in Atlanta Georgia. You couldn’t have had the Dallas Cowboys in Houston, Texas, you couldn’t have had the Super Bowl in New Orleans or in Atlanta or in Jacksonville or Miami.”
The civil rights icon also touched on the controversy over the Washington Redskin’s name in his speech commenting on race.....
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Has JJ forgotten that it was Reagan who imposed the sanctions that are credited for ending apartheid in South Africa?
All this BS that Jackson pumps out poisons the well.
I cannot believe that a supposedly respected University would invite this race baiting, self serving demagogue to speak, and honor him in this manner. Wonder if they would allow a conservative icon to speak there? BTW, Furman is a very expensive liberal arts school....
Dumb move, no question. But JJ grew up in Greenville, and actually lived across the street from Furman’s old campus near the downtown area, so there’s always been more of tie-in between them than one might expect.
Rumor has it that Jackson, a talented athlete in his youth, dreamed of playing QB at Furman, but due to the segregationist policies at the time he finished high school, would never have that chance (Furman integrated shortly afterwards, one of the pioneers in that advance in South Carolina).
Jackson ended up on a football scholarship at the University of Illinois, which he left after a short period under somewhat mysterious circumstances.
I’ve often speculated that if Fidel Castro had made it as a pro baseball player, we would have had one less murderous dictator; in a similar way, if Furman had integrated a bit sooner, we might have ended up with one less race hustler.
Gee, I thought we were told years back and ever since that Jesse Jackson was just a simple man looking out for black interests and that our concerns that he was a black racist were unfounded?
It actually matters enough so that somebody should write an open letter to the students of that school, telling them that Jackson not only rewrote history in an Orwellian way, but that he is an unprincipled scoundrel, and an extortionist.
It should include references to history books in their school library that prove Jackson lied to them. Even giving them page numbers. And then references to newspaper articles on the Internet to show his pattern of lies and bad behavior.
It should conclude by tying him, like a millstone around the neck, to the Democrat party. With a passing reference to his criminal son.
Reagan was a Republican. So was Goldwater. Now Lester Maddox was a democrat. George Wallace was a democrat. So were most of the racist politicians who wanted to keep segregation. It was the democrats who wanted to propagate it. And yet, the black people keep voting democrat. Why?
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