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Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Jesse Jackson

Jesse deserves a longer treatise than I am inclined to give at this time, so I will apologize up front.

The Rev was one of the guys at the center of the Civil Rights Movement, and was close to Doctor King. He ran for President in 1988, and was a legitimate factor in the race, impressive regardless of race. But since then, Jesse has been utterly irrelevant, and he knows it.

I remember about ten years ago when Jesse went to Baltimore to protest that the Orioles baseball team had no blacks in the front office. I couldn't help but think, there were 28 Major League Baseball teams then, employing, what, maybe 1000 people at the most in office jobs? Even if all of them were filled by blacks, that hardly makes any difference in the painfully high unemployment rates which US blacks deal with. Let him join up with organized labor and improve the conditions of workers all over, including blacks. Let him picket and shame corporations that send jobs of all colors overseas. You help blacks by helping labor, and you make yourself a hero to the working class in general.

Just this month, Jesse is praying with serial pedophile Michael Jackson (He's clergy, is this professional courtesy?), and then he injects himself upon the Terri Schiavo circus. The phrase that leaps to mind is "publicity whore."

Jesse, you used to be so much better than this! You played second or third fiddle to MLK, but you are certainly engaging and intelligent enough to inspire passion in people. Stop wasting your energies on garbage like you have this month. Terri Schiavo is going to die. Michael Jackson is going to buy freedom. And you'll be left sitting, waiting for the next baby-in-a-well story.

Stand up for principle, god dammit! The government has sent young men and women to a sovereign nation under false pretenses? Where is the outrage? The President cuts Medicare and proposes to trash Social Security? Speak the fuck up, Jesse! The Senate approves a bill that makes it harder for working people to declare bankruptcy when they are being crushed by usury from credit card companies. Nothing? NOTHING? Come on, Jesse, you're not a kid anymore, but try reading the paper beyond the front page looking for the flavor of the month, and maybe you'll find someplace decent to plant your moral outrage.

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