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REV. PETERSON CONFRONTS JESSE JACKSON (BOND LEADER ASSAULTED AT TOYOTA MEETING IN L.A.)
BOND ^ | December 11, 2001 | Ermias Alemayehu

Posted on 12/11/2001 11:44:45 AM PST by NewDestiny

Los Angeles - Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND) Founder and President Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson was assaulted by supporters of Rev. Jesse Jackson (head of Rainbow/PUSH Coalition) yesterday at a Los Angeles Trade Bureau Forum Meeting held at the L.A. Chamber of Commerce. The meeting between Jesse Jackson and Toyota Motor Sales officials was the unveiling of Toyota’s “21st Century Diversity Strategy”. Featured speakers were Jesse Jackson and Irv Miller, Toyota’s Vice-President For Corporate Communications. In attendance were upwards of two hundred black business owners and representatives.

Rev. Jesse Jackson stated in his opening remarks, “I have been on the ‘red squad list’ by [Attorney General John] Ashcroft and others, they’re after us… They’re using bin Laden as an excuse to come after us, we [U.S.] gave bin Laden 60 million, if we’re going to fight terrorists, we must also fight the Klan… Locking people out of economic opportunity is a form of economic terrorism,” said Jackson. Also, citing as an example of his organization’s efforts to help “disadvantaged” youth, Jackson announced that he has invited as his special guests to the Fourth Annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Awards Dinner to be held tonight in Beverly Hills, members of the “Decatur Seven,” the black students who were expelled for viciously attacking fellow students at a high school football game in Decatur, IL. Jackson had protested last year to have the thugs re-admitted. Jackson told the audience that minorities cannot make it with talent alone, prodding them to join his Trade Bureau or risk missing out on hundreds of millions in corporate dollars.

In the meeting it was also announced that Rainbow/PUSH member J.L. Armstrong was named Supplier Development Manager for Toyota Motor Sales, essentially making him the liaison between minority businesses owners and Toyota.

During the Q and A session, Rev. Peterson asked the Toyota official, “As the President of a nonprofit conservative organization, BOND, I’m concerned that our young people will be locked out of any training programs offered by Toyota because of our conservative beliefs. How are you going to make sure that organizations like ours are not discriminated against by Rainbow/PUSH and its members?” The crowd reacted with jeering as one man yelled at Rev. Peterson to sit down and keep quiet. Judge Greg Mathis, host of the T.V. show “Judge Mathis”, barked at Rev. Peterson, “You must be watching too much Bill O’Reilly.” The Co-Chair of the event, Carl Dickerson (President of Employee Benefits) and others began personally attacking Rev. Peterson by calling him “stupid”. Some in the audience could be heard asking, “What are you doing, why are you saying this?” It was obvious Jackson and most of the crowd didn’t want Rev. Peterson’s comments to be heard by the Toyota officials.

After several heated verbal exchanges between Rev. Peterson and Rainbow/PUSH officials, Jesse Jackson jumped in the fray by calling Rev. Peterson and other black conservatives “parasites, who show up after someone else shakes the fruit off the trees.” What followed could only be described as “fireworks” as Rev. Peterson laid into Jackson for his snide personal attack; the two were sitting five feet from each other, separated only by a large conference table. It seemed as though the whole room went silent as people were shocked that Jesse Jackson was silenced in front of his own supporters.

A security guard soon entered in an apparent attempt to remove Rev. Peterson, but he refused to leave. At this point Jonathan Jackson (Jesse’s son) and two other Jackson supporters positioned themselves across from Rev. Peterson and glared at him for the remainder of the meeting. At the meeting’s conclusion, Jonathan Jackson attempted to block Rev. Peterson and a BOND representative as they moved through a walkway. Rev. Peterson made his way past the younger Jackson despite this. When Rev. Peterson and the BOND representative moved to exit the room, Jonathan Jackson and several other men crossed the room and Jackson shoved Rev. Peterson. Meanwhile, a mob of people including Jesse Jackson circled Rev. Peterson, Jackson telling the men to “Get his a** out of here.” Judge Greg Mathis and others surrounded Rev. Peterson, screaming and yelling at him for several minutes to “leave before you get your a** kicked.” Rev. Peterson eventually left of his own will.

Rev. Peterson said, “The meeting reminded me of Ku Klux Klan meetings that I used to see in movies as a kid, except today the participants were black thugs dressed in suits.” BOND is sponsoring the “Third Annual National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson” on January 21, 2002 in Los Angeles, CA. For more information contact Ermias Alemayehu at (323) 782-1980 / bond@bondinfo.org.

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the author of the widely-acclaimed book From Rage To Responsibility.


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To: NewDestiny
"In the meeting it was also announced that Rainbow/PUSH member J.L. Armstrong was named Supplier Development Manager for Toyota Motor Sales, essentially making him the liaison between minority businesses owners and Toyota."

You think Je$$e arrainged it? . . . NAH, just coincidence.

Thank God for men like Rev. Peterson. < wondering if Kevin was there >

41 posted on 12/11/2001 12:41:30 PM PST by 4CJ
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To: NewDestiny
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the author of the widely-acclaimed book From Rage To Responsibility.

Clearly, the JJ's have yet to make that transition.

42 posted on 12/11/2001 12:44:43 PM PST by Post Toasties
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To: NewDestiny
Did you get it on tape?
43 posted on 12/11/2001 12:45:18 PM PST by Catspaw
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To: Trueblackman
BUMP
44 posted on 12/11/2001 12:46:23 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
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To: babylonian
Thanks for the #, I called and told Toyota they just lost a customer for life because of their dealings with Jesse Jackarse.
45 posted on 12/11/2001 12:47:12 PM PST by keepinitreal
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To: NewDestiny
I was considering buying a Toyota Tundra next year. I just called their customer service and told them I will never buy a truck from them as long as they support the extortionist racist supreme Jackson. They are a disgrace to America. Thank God, about 12 years ago I came within a whiskers hair of getting into a long term business relationship with them. Funding a criminal enterprise like Black Rainbow/PUSH out conservatives would not have made my job easy.
46 posted on 12/11/2001 12:47:44 PM PST by Russell Scott
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To: NewDestiny; rebuildus; Cortez; abigail2; HangFire; SixString; incindiary; feinswinesuksass...
I think the actions of the gathering against Rev. Peterson answered his question better than words!!

Prayers up for the protection of Rev. Peterson and B.O.N.D. from these goons who want to keep black America on the lie-beral plantation picking their weevil-ridden ideological cotton!

(And you betcher dupa I'm going to be at the Repudiation!!!)

47 posted on 12/11/2001 12:48:27 PM PST by Mercuria
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
Contact Toyota at
www.toyota.com/html/about/contact/index.html
48 posted on 12/11/2001 12:48:41 PM PST by tom paine 2
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To: tom paine 2
Pls check your FR mail. I put link there, since I can't do links. The link is for feedback on website, since they no longer have direct contact address.
49 posted on 12/11/2001 12:48:56 PM PST by katze
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To: Mercuria
Bump
50 posted on 12/11/2001 12:50:21 PM PST by PRND21
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To: NewDestiny
bump
52 posted on 12/11/2001 12:53:54 PM PST by timestax
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To: Mercuria; AnnaZ
BTTT!
53 posted on 12/11/2001 12:54:00 PM PST by HangFire
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To: Mercuria
(And you betcher dupa I'm going to be at the Repudiation!!!)

And when/where is the Repudiation???

54 posted on 12/11/2001 12:56:42 PM PST by HangFire
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To: NewDestiny
The meeting reminded me of Ku Klux Klan meetings that I used to see in movies as a kid, except today the participants were black thugs dressed in suits.”

The reason they do, is because they are.
The nerve of Jackson to incite a riot like that by saying that Ashcroft is after them, and compare him to the KKK is astounding.This man is one of the most dangerous persons around. Maybe Ashcroft should be after him come to think of it.
What minister of what Church threatens to kick the "hiney"of someone else?

55 posted on 12/11/2001 1:00:30 PM PST by ladyinred
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To: Dan from Michigan
Boycott Toyota..not that it's a problem for me anyway.(I buy American) Be careful what you say, I got flamed big time for pointing out the irony of japanese cars sporting american flags, decals, etc.
56 posted on 12/11/2001 1:01:18 PM PST by demsux
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To: Mercuria
Thanks for the bump!
57 posted on 12/11/2001 1:01:56 PM PST by Cool Guy
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To: tom paine 2
This link isn't working; perhaps they've already rec'd some feedback. ;-)

I found another phone number 1+800+468-6968, which allegedly will take you to a Toyota rep. I'm off to try.

58 posted on 12/11/2001 1:04:12 PM PST by katze
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To: NewDestiny
Can't find this document on the Bond website. Do you have a page link?
59 posted on 12/11/2001 1:04:18 PM PST by Stultis
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To: NewDestiny
"Jackson told the audience that minorities cannot make it with talent alone, prodding them to join his Trade Bureau or risk missing out on hundreds of millions in corporate dollars."

Jesse, the adulterer and spiritual advisor to 'Brother Bill', still out belittling the abilities and opportunities of Americans, and extorting BIG $$$ for the DemocRATic party bosse, err, 'his' Trade Bureau.

60 posted on 12/11/2001 1:04:49 PM PST by d14truth
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