Chittlin' Talk: First Jackson Biographer Threatened, Needed Bodyguards

Friday, April 13, 2007

First Jackson Biographer Threatened, Needed Bodyguards

"Timmerman explained:

"'The first investigative book about Jesse Jackson, and actually the last one until my book came out, was by a terrific black reporter in Chicago named Barbara Reynolds.

"'It was really on its way to becoming a best seller until Jesse and his friends intervened with the booksellers and everyone else. [They] got her kicked off the airwaves and, basically, run out of Chicago."

Go to http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/firTst.htm

Jesse Jackson: America's David (Title of Previous Ed.: Jesse Jackson, the Man, the Movement,)

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Booker T. Washington said:

"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."