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Owner59 -> RE: President Clinton "Obama Is Just Like Jesse Jackson" (1/28/2008 8:33:43 AM)
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The story that there was a rift or problem between King and Jackson is a myth.That`s not true.
For those who know better,it`s a stink`n lie.
The bigot wing of the republican party(fans of right wing talk radio ,Fox News and Bill Orielly fans,etc.),have been slamming and bashing Jackson for years.Some have been attacking and putting him down, since before his run for president.
He (and Al Sharpton)is often used as a reference of something/someone bad,dis-honorable, or un-desirable.
As is their right,just like the "braintrusts" that bashed Jackson in this thread,or claim that being associated with Jackson, is a smear or put down.
This is not a sophisticated bunch.It`s because they despise Jackson,that they automatically assume that a comment like Clinton`s, is a put down.
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I heard Sean Hannity on Faux News last night,contend that Clinton`s comment that Obama`s campaign was a "fairytale",was a racial slur.Yup,that`s what he said (but got beat up over it).
As I said,this is not a very sophisticated crowd.
This may shed some light on things.
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CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday contested the assertion in a new Martin Luther King Jr. biography that he had a bitter split with the slain civil rights leader.
Speaking to reporters after a breakfast held by his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to commemorate King's birthday, Jackson denied that King accused him of trying to use the movement to promote himself. That claim was made in historian Taylor Branch's book "At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68," which was released last week.
Asked about the passage in question, Jackson said King and his colleagues argued frequently about strategy but always came to a consensus afterward.
"We often had challenging meetings," he said. "And that was what we did. But in the end we left there together."
"Branch describes King storming out of a meeting with Jackson and other aides in a "fury" days before his death. The author quotes King as saying angrily to Jackson, "If you want to carve out your own niche in society, go ahead. But for God's sake, leave me out!"
Jackson said a heated argument did take place a few days before King's 1968 assassination. But as evidence there was no break between them, he distributed excerpts from the famous "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech that King delivered in Memphis on the eve of his death, mentioning Jackson by name.
After urging striking sanitation workers to boycott several corporations over their hiring policies, King said in that speech: "As Jesse Jackson has said, up to now, only the garbage men have been feeling pain. Now we must redistribute the pain."
Jackson said on Monday that those comments came "five minutes after the meeting Branch refers to. And if what he said is true, this wouldn't be here. That paragraph speaks for itself."
He said he holds Branch in "high regard" but was never interviewed for the book.
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/headlines/jackson0117
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