Jesse Jackson comes to school (complete)

mickydaniels · 09-20-2003, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Bond

Please do not believe anything Jesse Jackson says. Thank you.

One Question.
Why not?

Bond · 09-20-2003, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by mickydaniels

One Question.
Why not?

Ugh.

If you are going to ask why you shouldn't believe anything he says maybe you should do some research on him and what he has done. He was a perfectly fine person when he worked with Martin Luther King Jr. since then he has gotten way out of control. Read some articles, do some reserach.

mickydaniels · 09-20-2003, 04:28 PM

Research on Jesse Jackson? Please.
What you need to do is do some research on Mr. King, whom you seem to hold so highly. That guy seems to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of revisionist history. What a joke he was.
Stupid as Jackson is I will admit that, but his motive is to help the people oppressed by racism, even though his desire for his name to be known seems to get the better of him.

Bond · 09-20-2003, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mickydaniels

Research on Jesse Jackson? Please.
What you need to do is do some research on Mr. King, whom you seem to hold so highly. That guy seems to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of revisionist history. What a joke he was.
Stupid as Jackson is I will admit that, but his motive is to help the people oppressed by racism, even though his desire for his name to be known seems to get the better of him.

I never implied anything about King Jr. I simply stated that Jesse Jackson was a much better person when he worked with him. It's not worth arguing with you, because I know what the end result will be. I have my opinion and you have yours.

Stonecutter · 09-20-2003, 06:01 PM

In Chicago, our police superintendent is leaving. He was black, there was this huge deal to select from a field of like 50 people the next super, that field is down to 3. Two white guys and a Hispanic.

So, Jesse is raising a big hoopla about that "Why isn't there a black included."

Now, he might actually have a point there, but here's the kicker.

The group that narrowed the potentials to 3 is made up of a majority of black people.

Jesse's quote was something about how he wants to continue on the work of MLK, well, Jesse, isn't that exactly what MLK wanted, a group of mostly blacks being able to decide that two white guys and a Hispanic are the 3 best people for the job?

Kitana85 · 09-20-2003, 06:05 PM

Dr. Sally Ride, the first American woman in space and a member of the research team of the Colombia disaster, came to my school (York College of Pa). She was really interesting, and it got me a front page article in the school newspaper... but I'm too lazy to type in my 5 pages of notes... yeah..
good going rndm

The Germanator · 09-21-2003, 11:00 AM

Buzz Aldrin came to my school once, surprisingly he sucked. It was just an hour and a half of bragging and he showed us some postcards of his for some reason....silly.

Xantar · 09-21-2003, 12:25 PM

Jesse Jackson doesn't have any credibility with me any more. It's not even the fact that he has a child out of wedlock. That's not good, but it doesn't make his opinions on racism any more or less valid.

No, the problem is he keeps raising a hoot and cry about what he perceives as racism without even bothering to take a close look at the situation. Stonecutter's story is one example. Another one is when he went on record to criticize the movie Barbershop because one of the characters in there said Rosa Park wasn't all that great. Never mind for the moment the fact that it's just the opinion of one character in a movie that's essentially comedy. When you watch the scene, it's clear that this character is just saying what he's saying to get a rise out of the people he's talking to.

Jesse Jackson has fallen into the same trap that all too many liberals fall into. Before you flame me here, keep in mind that I myself am a liberal. Check out my previous posts on any subject from religion to capital punishment to gun laws if you don't believe me. That said, I am constantly disappointed when liberal celebrities get up in their self-righteousness, go off the deep end and consequently cause most of the people listening to tune out.

Aaron MacGruder (creater of The Boondocks comic strip) came to Swarthmore last year. His beef with American liberalism is that it's playing to lose. "Stop taking yourself out of the game!" he ranted. A few decades ago, organizer Saul Alinsky had the same thing to say. You don't have to compare Bush to Hitler in order to criticize the Iraq War.