Influential figures rise to defense of [Chicago nightclub] E2 owner (Jesse Jackson culpable?)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 2/19/03 | Ray Gibson and John McCormick

[IowaHawk]

Click to read the entire article. Here's the critical paragraphs...

Last year, several black community activists rallied to help Kyles, who told them the city was trying to shut him down along with other African-American-owned businesses on the edges of the trendy South Loop.

One of the activists, Bamani Obadele, said the group spoke to the Chicago Defender editorial board about Kyles' fight to survive and appeared on WVON radio, asking the community to support Kyles.

Haithcock remained chilly to the activists' efforts, Obadele said, until the elder Jackson interceded. "When Rev. Jackson speaks," he said, "people move."

[chiefqc]

If jesse jackass is involved, its got to be slimey and perverted.

[martin_fierro]

C'mon, Hawk.

This is one of your excellent, exquisite parodies, right?

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[IowaHawk]

The story in a nutshell:

1. The city of Chicago wanted this placed closed, citing safety/fire/public nuisance. They issued 3 separate court orders.

2. Using the old race card, Jackson (along with other prominent African-American figures) interceded on behalf of the owners. The court orders were ignored.

3. Twenty one people died. All of them young African-Americans.

4. PC kills - even its intended beneficiaries.

[OXENinFLA]

Where did Jesse Jackson get all his money??????

[IowaHawk]

If only, Martin. In my parodies, nobody gets killed.

I am a Chicago resident, and I have been angered to the point of sickness with every new revelation in the E2 story.

[Catspaw]

I haven't heard what Jackson is doing for the people who were killed and injured. Can you refresh my memory?

[Fixit]

Where did Jesse Jackson get all his money??????

Shakedown, that's where.

[TheBattman]

So, IF this club were a white-owned, white client night club, would it have been allowed to keep operating under such unsafe conditions?

I seriously doubt it. The owner of the club had the backing of several black activists, not the least known was good 'ole Jessie Jackboot Jackson.

The club owner and his security are to blame for this situation. Jessie Jackass is an acomplice and should be held to the fire (literally would be nice!).

[pgkdan]

This story is going to get very trashy, very quickly. It's only 2 days since the event and yesterday (the first day after the event), before any of the victims has even been buried...the first law suits were filed.

Jesse Jackass was out in fron t trying to blame this on President Bush...peopple panicked and stampeded because the pepper spray made them fearful of a chemical attack. The owner of the club who opened the second floor illegally and who had blocked all the emergency exits is, of course, the real victim in this fiasco. Just ax Jesse, he'll explain it to you.

[Cicero]

Finally, the names are coming out. I did a Google search on Dwain Kyles yesterday, after Fox News finally mentioned his name. I found one reference to him by the local Chicago TV station. Up to now the national news has sat on the names. But there's not much doubt that the Chicago political machine is involved here, Because Dailey depends on the blacks as part of his power base.

The connection with Martin Luther King is remote, but interesting. King can be accused of a number of failings, but probably the worst thing he did was to come to Chicago toward the end of his life and stir up racial strife, with the help of the local Quakers, oddly enough. (The Quakers also worked with blacks at that time to destroy Philadelphia.) That was what provoked the Cicero riots and began the destruction of the Chicago ethnic neighborhoods.

[Fixit]

...Jesse Jackson, whose Rainbow/PUSH organization has been consoling families and helping them arrange to pay burial expenses.

Source- ComPost

Jesse will also, I believe, be brokering any wrongful death lawsuit against the city...

[Treebeard]

Please God, let Jesse Jackson be found liable for some of this. By the time the civil suits get done with him, there won't be any more green OR gold in that rainbow...

[IowaHawk]

I haven't heard what Jackson is doing for the people who were killed and injured. Can you refresh my memory?

From the story:
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In the days since the 21 patrons were killed, Jackson and his son U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) have rushed to defend Kyles and the club, as have U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill.) and a host of prominent Chicago ministers.

"Dwain Kyles is a childhood friend of mine. Today, he's a lawyer ... and an upstanding example of a young professional person in our community," the younger Jackson said in a prepared statement.

While calling Monday's disaster "unfortunate and tragic," he insisted "extending blame and pointing fingers is inappropriate and unnecessary before the first funeral has been held and the investigation is complete."
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[eureka!]

"I am a Chicago resident, and I have been angered to the point of sickness with every new revelation in the E2 story."

Me too. Likewise with the presstitutes' willing spinning for JJ & Co. Here is hoping that the lawsuits bring in the aiders and abettors....

[Physicist]

I haven't heard what Jackson is doing for the people who were killed and injured. Can you refresh my memory?

He's trying to wash their blood out of his shirt.

[OldFriend]

Jackson earns his money the old fashioned way.....EXTORTION

[OldFriend]

Anyone in the community who dares to criticize any friend of JJ is going to be one sorry soul.

[dts32041]

Actually it would have been allowed to stay open as long as you gave a little of your hard earned geld to the dlaey machine.

It doens't need only dead voters but money.

[IowaHawk]

No one can doubt that had E2 been white-owned, Jackson would be leading a mass demonstration and demanding millions for "community reparations" (PUSH extortion $) from the owners.

Unfortunately for Jackson, the owners here are cozy old associates. In a desparate bit of blamestorming he now points the finger at the city, and even more ludicrously, at the war on terror. Pathetic.