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Jesse Jackson Compares Gov. Walker to Segregationist & Invokes Lynching of Emmett Till

Jun. 5, 2012 9:34am Jonathon M. Seidl

Leave it to Jesse Jackson to speak in grandiose, racial terms when it comes to the Wisconsin recall election. And it’s not just the Right that’s taking notice (although the reason is quite different).

On Ed Schultz’s MSNBC program on Monday, the host talked glowingly of Jackson’s recent statements, summarizing some and playing others:

Yes, that’s Schultz paraphrasing Jackson as saying, “He called this election one of the biggest moments in the history of our democracy. He compared it to Emmett Till’s Lynching and Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat.” And of course he then played the audio of Jackson comparing Walker to segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace.

The Weekly Standard has a paraphrase of what happened during Jackson’s speech:

Two days before the election, a crowd of 250 Democratic and union activists gathered to hear from Reverend Jackson and a host of left-wing leaders. The crowd applauded mightily when one union leader compared Scott Walker’s reforms to the attacks on 9/11. They rose to their feet when a local teachers union head screamed that Walker is a serial liar. And they cheered wildly when Jackson compared Walker to segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace.

“So now you have a governor,” Jackson thundered. “Wallace did it in Alabama and now Walker in Wisconsin – trying to take back access to vote.”

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In many ways, Jackson was the most moderate of the speakers who addressed the crowd, his comparison of Walker to George Wallace notwithstanding. ”There are these defining moments,” Jackson said, ”big moments in the history of our democracy.” He drew a line from Emmett Till’s lynching to Rosa Parks’s civil disobedience to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and, finally, Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention on August 28, 2008, “another big day.” The June 5, 2012 recall would be yet another big day, he said.

As the Standard notes, the shocking statements weren’t just coming from Jackson. During the same meeting, someone invoked 9/11 to say that those greedy, rich bankers never saved anyone’s lives during threat World Trade Center attack (ignoring the fact that Walker’s collective bargaining reforms do not apply to the police and firefighters’ unions):

Hanley continued: “On September 11, when we were attacked, I didn’t see any bankers running up the stairs to save lives. … Rev. Jackson, I looked really hard to find somebody from Wall Street only a few blocks away from the trade center who would run over and save a life. I couldn’t find any. There were none. It was the public workers…And now we have watched people including some politicians in this state turn public employees into a worse enemy than Osama bin Laden.”

But back to Jackson.

When Schultz asked Jackson why he compared Walker to Wallace, he based it on the idea of voter ID efforts: “One has tried to block the vote and lost, and Walker’s trying to stop the vote and will lose.”

Of course he also went on to invoke Martin Luther King and called collective bargaining a fundamental right. Watch the full interview below:

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Comments (134)

Attila
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 10:17am
Jackson has been a race hustler since 1966 and hasn’t changed in any way. He’s done nothing for the education of poor black children.

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Virginia Joe
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 7:54am
Why does anyone still listen to this irrelevant individual?

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OhSnappage
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 1:16am
Jackson will plead into the fears of the gullible and uninformed to fuel an issue that he’s paid to support. Jackson gets paid well for his job as a tool for the Dems.

Funny the man considers himself a “Rev.” when he sold his soul a long time ago.

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ddg7
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:18pm
That’s what I like about JJ, he’s always good for an insane remark!

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smokeyridgerunner
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:02pm
And you Mr. Jackson look like the **** on my ass.

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eramthgin
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:42pm
Punk. Community organizer. Fake reverend.

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CommentsOfWeThePeople
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 8:38pm
For the record, Till wasn’t lynched…he was beaten and then shot, tied to a gin fan, then thrown into the Tallahatchie River. Since I was born after the event by a few years, I do live within spitting distance of his (Till’s) museum. They were able to id the body by his father’s ring, which was returned to the family after he, (Till’s father) was convicted by the military of rape and murder of two European (I think they were Italian women) while he was serving in the Army during WWII. Found guilty, Till’s father was put to death I think by hanging or firing squad. Till’s death, according to a witness, a black man that worked for the killers, would not have taken place had he, Till, not smarted off to his killer’s, thus he died.

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justice41
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 5:30pm
Jesse Jackson is racist anti-Semitic. He is always trying to turn every dispute, even among children, into a racist event. Anyone who pays any attention to his rants is foolish. He is a huckster trying to blackmail businesses into donating to his cohorts. Any self-respecting person regardless of color should shun him. The last thing that he wants is a post-racial society.

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slick3
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 5:10pm
Don’t worry about Jesse, he had 60 people at his rally and some were bused in by unions from other states. A very reliable source, how desperate can they get,,,,, worry about voter fraud!

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Mauireman
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:42pm
GREEDY government employee unions MUST be eliminated! These greedy government workers are no different than any other worker and DO NOT deserve special treatment!

NO one who works for the government should be allowed to vote in any matter effecting that government, it’s a direct conflict of interest and MUST be stopped!

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- UNBOTHERED
  Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:10pm
  So let me get this straight..Because a person is affiliated with the govt, they should not be able vote on anything regarding govt office. So I guess that would mean that anyone affiliated with the USA, should not be able to vote for any office of the USA.
  
  FAR RIGHT WINGLETS get more and more idiotic as the days go by.
  
  More entertaining than Daffy Duck.
  
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TheBurningTruth
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:33pm
Read a story on the FoxNews website about a 17 year old black kid in (yes) a hoodie! that shot at a Latino man holding an infant. He hit the man and killed the baby. No whites involved and no great civil protest. The perp a black and Jessie Jackass doesn’t bother to take note.

We all know who the real racists are…

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- UNBOTHERED
  Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:08pm
  If you are calling someone a racist because they did not speak out IN PUBLIC about something, then I am sure most of your family are racists idiot.
  
  For the last time, the reason Jesse and Al spoke up, is because the police decided NOT TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE MURDER. So, tell me where did this crime take place and did the police decide not to arrest the black man in the hoody you moron.
  
  Get a clue and stop folowing satan.
  
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