Chittlin' Talk: Shakedown: A Shocking Jesse Jackson Biography

Friday, April 13, 2007

Shakedown: A Shocking Jesse Jackson Biography

"But it was whispered that messing with Jesse risked Fort's displeasure. Two black reporters, Angela Parker and Barbara A. Reynolds, crossed Jesse and paid such a price. Parker questioned Jackson's finances in print and Reynolds wrote Jesse Jackson: America's David - a largely sympathetic biography that boldly contradicted Jackson's childhood stories and his account of the death of Dr. King. Both left Chicago because of threats of violence from the El Rukns and shunning within the black community."

Go to http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21NVWilsonJackson602.html

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."