History confronts hogwash

Washington Times ^ | 3/24/02 | Thomas Sowell

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Bill O'Reilly of "The O'Reilly Factor" is one of the few major media figures who does not hesitate to criticize Jesse Jackson, so it was appropriate that the author of a critical new book about Mr. Jackson appeared on that program. The book is aptly titled "Shakedown," in honor of the Rev. Jackson's success in extracting millions of dollars from weak-kneed corporations that are fearful of his calling them "racist."

[daviddennis]

I'm about halfway through 'Shakedown', and Jesse Jackson's career has to be thought of as "odd". He appears to have succeeded financially by chutzpah - tell everyone you support the black cause, and enough people will believe you to make you wealthy.

For example, during the Carter admnistration, he got $6 million in grants to perform various vaguely defined tasks in the education sphere. Apparently Jackson used the money to set up Operation PUSH offices around the country -- and for nothing else. In the end, his programmes were so ineffective that he had to give about half the money ack to the government.

I kept shaking my head and thinking "There has to be more to him than that."

There has to be.

Right?

D

[VOA]

bump...great Sowell commentary

[nopardons]

There's even less ! He's a conman, always way and a racketeer; his racket being the color of his skin.

[nopardons]

This is a GREAT article, and so many well educated ( prior to the Civil Rights Movement ) , wealthy balck names have been left off the list. Paul Robson went to Columbia , something like five decades before affirmative action; for one . There was a famous journalist ( though I have forgotten his name at the moment ) at the New York Post, from the 1940's on down. The sisters, who published a book a dew years ago, also went to black AND Ivy Legaue colleges, and one was a prominent dentist. The list is endless.

[L.N. Smithee]

while most blacks lifted themselves out of poverty, the public image is that government programs were responsible. This has left many whites wondering why blacks can't advance themselves by their own efforts, like other minorities — and left many blacks likewise convinced that without government programs they would be lost. Such myths help race hustlers but hurt the race that they claim to be leading.

Amen, brother...uh...not that kind of brother...you know what I mean...

[meenie]

Jesse lives off the uneducated, poorer black. The rest get along fine without him.

[metesky]

Rutgers

1915

Paul, 17, wins a four-year scholarship to Rutgers in a statewide written competition. Entering the college that fall, "Robey," as he will come to be called, is the third African-American to attend the 500-student private college. The 6'2", 190-pound Robeson makes the football squad, despite physical intimidation by his teammates.

1917

Legendary Yale coach Walter Camp puts Robeson on his All-American team, calling him a veritable superman. He will be named again in 1918. In four years at Rutgers, he will win 15 varsity letters in four sports — football, baseball, basketball, and track. Robeson will dominate more than the playing field — he will become Rutgers' star scholar, orator, and singer and be elected to all the honor societies.

A good man (some say great) seduced by communism.