Chittlin' Talk: Jesse Jackson Targeted At GE Shareholders Meeting Over 2002 Slick Rick Appearance

Friday, April 27, 2007

Jesse Jackson Targeted At GE Shareholders Meeting Over 2002 Slick Rick Appearance

"'Maybe it's Jackson who is changing his tune,' Flaherty said in a statement. 'In 2002, the National Legal and Policy Center asked Jackson to disinvite from his Wall Street conference a performer known as Slick Rick whose songs are characterized by vulgar and offensive. We even pointed to a song titled "Treat Her Like a Prostitute."' Flaherty said that Slick Rick was allowed to speak and perform and Jackson refused to condemn Slick Rick during a press conference."

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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."