Posted on 01/22/2003 1:10:51 PM PST by NewDestiny
BOND: Jesse Jackson 'Hijacked' King's Dream
The mainstream press doesn't want to acknowledge the small but growing fire on the right within the African-American community. And so you won't see the New York Times, the Washington Post or any of the other prestige press outlets reporting on the unorthodox Martin Luther King Day commemoration that took place in Los Angeles on Monday.
But we think every American - black, white and every shade in between - has a stake in the crusade launched four years ago by the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, head of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND), who wants to expose the truth about the media's favorite civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson.
On Monday, the official celebration of Dr. King's birthday, Peterson held his fourth annual Jesse Jackson Repudiation Day. Here's a report direct from BOND on what transpired:
JESSE JACKSON 'REPUDIATED' ON M.L.K. DAY
Rev. Peterson Says: 'Civil Rights Leaders Have Hijacked The Dream'
Los Angeles - Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND) Founder Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson led a protest Monday against Jesse Jackson in front of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH offices in Los Angeles. The 4th annual "National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson" (on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday) rally was attended by people from all over the country, including Fargo, North Dakota; others flew in from as far away as London, England.
Rev. Peterson blasted Jesse Jackson for his "legacy of racism" and for "hijacking Dr. King's dream" as did speakers: Jane Chastain, host of "The Judicial Watch Report" Radio Show; Ted Hayes, activist for the homeless; Rabbi Nachum Shifren, educator/activist; and Pastor Wiley Drake (First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park). "This year's rally was a success. We had a great turn out and the speakers were excellent!" said Rev. Peterson.
While Rev. Peterson used the King holiday to promote Dr. King's dream, Jackson and Coretta Scott King twisted the slain civil rights leader's words to support their positions as they spoke out against a likely U.S. war with Iraq. Jackson said, "We must use minds over missiles" and said King would have been opposed to a war with Iraq.
Coretta Scott King said Monday that "World leaders should settle their differences peacefully, and avoid a painful war." And at a King Day march in Los Angeles' Crenshaw District, anti-war protesters were allowed to march in the parade with anti-war and anti-Bush signs.
The Rev. Peterson said, "It is disgusting to see those who say they were close to the man [Dr. King] and say they understand his dream pervert his words. Most blacks, including Coretta Scott King, have not realized Dr. King's dream; instead they're living Jesse Jackson's nightmare." The Rev. Peterson added, "We will continue holding the National Day of Repudiation rally until Jesse Jackson repents, or Dr. King's dream is realized."
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Awareness that the message of MLK was long ago subverted and twisted 180 degrees by self-anointed Black "leaders". Awareness that welfare and race preferences created a dead end that keeps blacks on the federal plantation, dutifully begging for more handouts and mouthing the Democrat party line. Awareness that, for blacks, Democrat=Dependency.
Somethin's bubblin'.
Somethin's bubblin' up from the black community. And it doesn't wear giant pants, heavy gold chains and sport a street swagger.See also a Free Republic search for "Jesse Lee Peterson"
This new thing is the most frightening terror ever to threaten the Anti-assimilation poverty pimps known as the Left: it is true Black Awareness.
On Monday, the official celebration of Dr. King's birthday, Peterson held his fourth annual Jesse Jackson Repudiation Day. Here's a report direct from BOND on what transpired:See also the report (and PICTURES from last year's event!) at www.BONDinfo.org:JESSE JACKSON 'REPUDIATED' ON M.L.K. DAY
Rev. Peterson Says: 'Civil Rights Leaders Have Hijacked The Dream'
The 4th Annual National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson on Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday
BOND (Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny) will host its 4th Annual "National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson" on Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday, on Monday, January 20, 2003, from 10 AM till 12 Noon P.S.T. in front of Rainbow/PUSH L.A., 1968 West Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90018.
Rev. Peterson said, "On the first anniversary of 9-11, the American people are paying their respects to the victims of the terrorist attacks, and President Bush is preparing the nation for possible war against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Meanwhile, domestic enemies like Jackson are concocting ways to undermine our war efforts." Rev. Peterson added, "For Jackson to demand that we open our borders and stop profiling suspected terrorists in time of war is insane!"In a recent statement Jackson said, "...He (Ashcroft) had been a foot soldier for the race-bait, anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-civil rights politics of the radical right." He added, "Ashcroft's Justice Department is a threat to established American civil rights and civil liberties..." Jackson also said that, "The Bush White House considers itself above the law, and immune to scrutiny and accountability." Jackson and others including the NAACP, AFL-CIO, National Organization for Women, ACLU, and the Arab American Institute are making numerous demands including: an end to racial profiling, voting rights for ex-felons, same-day voter registration, and for more relaxed immigration laws.
"Jesse Jackson is out of control! He has lost his moral authority to lead, and he is desperately trying to make himself relevant both on domestic and international affairs," said Rev. Peterson. "Our goal is to repudiate Jackson once and for all and show the entire nation that this man is a racist, anti-American who is a threat to the security of this country. Furthermore, I'm offering Jesse Jackson a 'free one way ticket to Baghdad' if he'll turn in his passport and promise never to come back," concluded Rev. Peterson.
Not to hijack the thread, or anything, but the flood of third-world immigrants is going to "bubble" the black community.
Blacks continue to get mileage for injustices done to their ancestors from ancient history. (Oh, boo hoo.)
But the third worlders don't have much sympathy for outdated black struggles. Why? Because these people have hard times in the here-and-now.
Mexicans have just displaced blacks as the largest minority in America. And I doubt the Mex's will be sympathetic to blacks demands for reparations.
My response is my tag line.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is seen on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated there. James Earl Ray, the petty criminal who confessed to assassinating King, then recanted and spent decades seeking a trial, died Thursday. Pictured from left are, Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, King, and Ralph Abernathy. |
OUTSIDE ROOM 307 -- Moments later on April 3, Rev. Ralph Abernathy led Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. and others into room 307 at the Lorraine Motel to discuss the restraining order and plans for the second march. King, who was staying in room 306, had met with young people and other groups of strike supporters who wished to be part of future protests. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and one of his aides, Jesse Jackson, at Mason Temple in Memphis on April 3, 1968. On that stormy night, Dr. King delivered his last public address, which became known as the "Mountaintop Speech," to an audience of more than 2,000. |
MOUNTAINTOP SPEECH -- On the stormy night of April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his last public speech. Rev. Ralph Abernathy (right) applauded as King told an audience of more than 2,000 at Mason Temple in Memphis that the April 8 march must be held to refocus attention on the sanitation strike. He said Memphis had "refused to be honest with its public servants who happen to be garbage men." The speech has become known as the "Mountaintop" speech. "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land." |
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LORRAINE BALCONY -- An assassin's bullet found Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis at 6:01 p.m. April 4, 1968, dropping him to the concrete near his second floor room. Aides and others rushed to his side, then pointed in the direction from which the shot came. Kneeling at King's side is Marrell McCollough, an undercover Memphis police officer. Others on the balcony included Andrew Young (left) and Mary Hunt (right), a teenage clerical assistant. King was hit on the right side of his face, near the jaw; he died in the emergency room of St. Joseph Hospital at 7:05 p.m. |
JACKSON AT THE LORRAINE -- In the courtyard of the Lorraine Motel after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded April 4, 1968, Rev. Jesse Jackson, a King aide, talked with Shelby County Sheriff William N. Morris Jr. (left) and Claude Armour, former Memphis fire and police commissioner who served as law enforcement special assistant to Tennessee Gov. Buford Ellington. "The bullet exploded in his face...It was similar to the Kennedy incident. The police were all around, but there is no military protection against an ambush and he was ambushed," said Jackson. |
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i KNEW both in the 60s.
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