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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
Rev. Peterson - should be awarded the Free Republic Medal of Honor for this confrontation! Way to go, Rev. Peterson! What courage!
81 posted on 12/11/2001 1:41:20 PM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: VinnyTex
Oh...you're BACK, are you? **g**

Hope you had a nice vacation!

Considering the furtiveness of the whole meeting process...it's surprising that anyone with a dissenting viewpoint was there at all!

82 posted on 12/11/2001 1:41:38 PM PST by Mercuria
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To: katze
Rainbow/Push Coalition
83 posted on 12/11/2001 1:42:23 PM PST by scottiewottie
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To: Pyro7480
There just exemplifying what they are: jack-booted thugs who don't give a rats @$$ about black people, but about dividing and conquering our nation.

What scares me is how many Black Americans FOLLOW the reprobates like Jesse Jackson and Al notsoSharpton yet shun leaders like Alan Keyes (A BRILLIANT man) Colin Powell and Dr. Condelezza Rice (my spelling of her first name may be wrong). How many times have you heard Dan RatherBeBiased and the other talking heads refer to Dr. Rice as "Condi" like she were their daughter instead of a prestigious, brilliant educated Black Woman who has dared walk (run?) off the Liberal Plantation and become a Conservative? They do this to strip her of her earned title and accolades - to reduce her to as common as possible. Same with Keyes - how many times do you even see that man get airtime? They did a deliberate media blackout of him during the race for Presidency. I thought the man was brilliant but the most racist bigots of all - the liberal media - made sure ANY Black who got uppity and dared to walk off the Liberal Plantation took a proverbial whupping.

I wish Black America could SEE them for what they are.
84 posted on 12/11/2001 1:43:20 PM PST by GussiedUp
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To: spongebob58
I don't know how to load links (or anything yet) but here is BOND'S website:

http://www.bondinfo.org/
85 posted on 12/11/2001 1:48:33 PM PST by GussiedUp
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To: NewDestiny
Jackson revealed his agenda: "shaking the fruit from the tree". It doesn't take planting a tree and pruning it, tending it and guarding the fruit from the pests, to be the one who shakes the fruit down to the ground. Any thief can do that as orchard owners will tell you.

I hope the Toyota board members heard that loud and clear. Jackson intends to shake them down for every cent he can get from them. The threat of violence is always hovering over his negotiations like a cloud.

86 posted on 12/11/2001 1:51:16 PM PST by Twodees
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To: NewDestiny
I hope to speak with Rev. Peterson in a few moments to find out how he is doing and if he plans to press charges.
87 posted on 12/11/2001 1:53:17 PM PST by Trueblackman
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To: borisbob69
Reverend Peterson tried to stop a mugging, and got mugged himself - by Jesse Jackson and his band of thugs.
There ain't any other way to look at it!!
88 posted on 12/11/2001 1:53:47 PM PST by HardStarboard
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To: NewDestiny
Bump Bump Bump to the top
89 posted on 12/11/2001 1:56:26 PM PST by Notwithstanding
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To: NewDestiny
Every conservative Toyota stockholder in the country needs to see this, and call this company's administration to accounts.

And Rev. Peterson needs an avalanche of support from Free Republic. Send BOND your emails, letters, and checks. This man is a true hero, and just proved it by belling the cat in his own box.

90 posted on 12/11/2001 1:58:37 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Mercuria
Recently I heard on one of the cable stations, they gave a listing of the most sought after car to be stolen....turns out TOYOTA is right at the top....you figure.....When you go to Peterson's Day give a extra hurrah for me.
91 posted on 12/11/2001 1:58:50 PM PST by ejo
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To: NewDestiny; OLDWORD
Phil,

You gotta see this. Jesse Jackson has the nerve to call other people "parasites." Rev. Peterson called Jackson to his face. "black thugs dressed in suits," and compared them to the "Klu Klux Klam." If you could get a tape of this confrontation, you'd have some interesting stuff for on-air.

Since Bill O'Reilly was mentioned by name, he'll undoubtedly take this up on his Show. The sooner the looney black left can be exposed as essentially exorioists, and have their political back broken, the better it will be for America generally.

You could have a really HOT Show if you invited both Rev. Peterson and Rev. Jackson to be guests at the same time.

Congressman Billybob

Click and bookmark for Billybob's daily national commentary at 7:30 a.m.

92 posted on 12/11/2001 1:59:04 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
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To: PRND21
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 does this say about Jesse Jackson?
93 posted on 12/11/2001 2:01:01 PM PST by Sloopy
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To: CounterCounterCulture; OLDWORD
Phil,

See this contraposition of Dr. Martin Luther King, the Rt. Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Booker T. Washington in post 39. Good comparison.

Billybob

94 posted on 12/11/2001 2:04:03 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
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To: NewDestiny
Wow! Ping!!!!!!! For victory & freedom!!!
95 posted on 12/11/2001 2:06:27 PM PST by Saundra Duffy
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To: Trueblackman
Thanks for the info about Hannity and Peterson. Keep us informed.
97 posted on 12/11/2001 2:12:29 PM PST by Sloopy
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To: NewDestiny
I just got off the phone with Patrick of BOND and he tells me that Rev. Peterson is okay. I stated to Patrick that Rev. Peterson should file charges against Jackson's son for push him and he said that Rev. Peterson would think anout it. I would like to thank every Freeper for their concern about Rev. Peterson's Welfare and you can now see that the other side will do whatever it takes to quite the voices of those who are real leaders in our communities.
98 posted on 12/11/2001 2:20:35 PM PST by Trueblackman
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To: NewDestiny
Let's go to the video!

All these events are videotaped, where is the video?

99 posted on 12/11/2001 2:21:50 PM PST by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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To: AStack75
Well, at least Jesse is now refering to his dealings with Toyota as what they truly are, a shakedown. Extortion is another word

Great observation!! LOL!

100 posted on 12/11/2001 2:23:14 PM PST by abigail2
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