Jesse Jackson Compares Gov. Walker to Segregationist & Invokes Lynching of Emmett Till
- Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:34am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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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)
The Gooch
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:20amHey, Jesse! What do you call a bunch of representatives who flee a state to avoid their work? Wisconsin Democrats!
Report Post »The left has looked childish and greedy in this drama from the start and insists on doing so to date.
I’m not a partisan, but, damn, do Ds just think about no one but themselves? Their argument has been from the start that many should suffer so that a few can keep pretending the good times keep rollin’ on.
“Hard times across the state and nation? Yeah, that’s too bad. Screw you, pay me.”
Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:36amAlways remember, the Left lives, sponges and survives off the hard work, ingenuity and resourcefulness of the the right, we are the HOST….they are the PARASITES…..and the needs to wake up before it gets killed by the parasite………
Report Post »hypnos
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:52amJesse must be one the most hateful idiotic people on the planet. That planet being Uranus.
Report Post »Thomas
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:28pmAl Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are segregationist. They say only black people can be judges and jurors in black cases. They are continuous dividing this country in the black and white. They are bigots which government and society have turned a blind eye to. Shame of you government and law enforcement for letting these bigots get on tv and in newspapers day after day and suggest the things that they do.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:48pmSomeone please tell jessie jackass that segregation and lynching include the lynching of emmett till were all done by DEMOCRATS.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:53pmJesse should talk about the important roles Democrats had in advancing civil rights…It was a democratic bus driver that told Rosa Parks to move to the back of the bus. And it was democrats lynching,raping and maiming blacks across the south that inspired the Christian Republicans to say enough and to push civil rights through. And here the kicker Democrats used the crisis created by democrats to get black support……Nothing has changed ever
Report Post »Laken
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:48pmVote in Greta’s poll….How interested are YOU in today’s recall election?
Scroll down…on right side of page
http://gretawire.foxnewsinsider.com/
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 3:55pmJesse Jackson is a crazed loony. He could say that white people are holding blacks in a prison on the moon and liberal kookburgers would believe him. Walker is going to whip Barrett and democrats are simply making excuses. And oh, by the way Jesse, George Wallace was a DEMOCRAT!
Report Post »http://www.fearthegovernment.org/whiny-democrats-making-excuses-in-scott-walker-wisconsin-recall-election/
Shiroi Raion
Posted on June 6, 2012 at 2:17amSo much for your prediction, Rev. Jess. Walker wins… twice in one term! Hah!
Report Post »FrankJHornik
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:18amI love my freedom of speech. I would not give it up even if I have to tolerate the racist remarks of Jesse Jackson who does not deserve the title of Reverand.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:46amRevy Love Child Jackson====RACIST
OMG 2012
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 2:16pmI will keep my Freedom of Speech… regardless of what happens to Jesse… or his dog!
Report Post »midwesthippie
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:17am…walker is more like kermit the frog taking away the cookie monster’s cookie…
Report Post »TheEDGE
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:45amHippie- Good imagination. The situation can more accurately be described as the tea party coming to take what is rightfully theirs’; Wisconians pensions!!! :)
Report Post »TheEDGE
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:11pmWe’re coming for your pension…………………………hippie.
Report Post »frogg
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:11amRemember, he never got elected to anything. Of course he could run for dog catcher, but that would be an insult to dogs!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:39amYou know Jesse is being sued by a former employee. The employee claims he was forced to help facilitate an affair between Jackson and Tamara Holder, a frequent FNC contributor. She’s one of the liberals Hannity has on frequently. I‘m surprised the Blaze hasn’t covered it.
Report Post »Fitzzz
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:10amI look at Ed Schitz, as being a comic
Report Post »Little red blood shot beady eys, squinted up, saliva running down his chin
ranting and raving ans just so misinformed
I can hardly wait until the Charotte Convention, thn we get to see Ed, with his sister in law
Debbie Wasserm Schitz side by side, seeing who can scream the loudest
Detroit paperboy
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:10amYep, cuz everybody knows a balanced budget and smaller more efficient government IS RACIST…..
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:18amFairness to all and balanced budgets, smaller more efficient government, and fiscal sanity is racist, but corruption, racism, big deficits, fiscal insanity, and big less efficient government and fairness to some is not racist. Huh, devoid of logic much Jackson…. Rev. Jackson and resist we much are voting for the Democrat 100 times tonight thanks to Holder’s Injustice dept. They are having a voting party for dead people and cartoon characters like resist we much and Jackson.
Report Post »DMhembree
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:09amJackson “conveniently” didn’t mention that the segregationalist George Wallace was a Democrat.
Report Post »Slarker
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:06amJackson, Sharpton, et. al., are wanting and hoping to have a real civil rights moment. They are drooling for an Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, lunch counter, church bombing moment. But alas, their efforts in the 60′s has changed America. So all they have now is race baiting.
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:19amThe sad part is, Every time these shills invoke these other events they dilute and cheapen there importance. Collective bargaining is for people too cowardly to negotiate their own worth. Individual pay and benefits should be confidential between the employer and the employee.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:03amAwwww, look at jesse“the babby daddy” jackson trying to be relevant.
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 12:27pmHey Jesse is getting paid! You think Jesse comments on other peoples issues for free ?? Jesse doesn’t give a hoot about WI teachers/PEU workers. He’s getting paid to chime in.
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:01amMore verbal vomit from the devil wrapped in pious clothing.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:32amRighteous description.
Report Post »shipbldr
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:01amIt will be a glorious day when Jackson, and Lee and Carter and Sharpton and Waters et al are in the cold dark ground and we are rid of them and their lies. They are getting rich vitimizing the very people they claim to champion.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:06amHe is an insult to the Civil Rights Movement and is prostituting himself to racism. He is no Rev., he is evil.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:47amDon’t worry there are more race baiting poverty pimps where they came from ready to exploit the ignorant. Van Jones is still young for example.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:59amJesse Jackson. A half century of making money off of race baiting and extortion.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:07amWhy stop now? Shouldn’t he be shuffling off this mortal coil sometime in the near future?
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:46amAm sure he has “ inspired” community organizers like Barack Obama over the years. What a great, anti-American “ social justice ” / aka “ revenge for slavery” legacy. His children must be so proud. And to think he hijacks Christ’s message of love and forgiveness to cloak his hate speech to accomplish his ” message.” Just another one of the 99% Big Lies of the Left and the Great Deceiver who actually inspires them.
Report Post »DoctorRon
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:58amWhy does the Blaze give this idiot publicity? Otherwise, only the 53 people who watch the Mr. Ed Show would have known about these racist remarks.
Report Post »sinsay7
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:08amwow. when did ed’ s audience double to 53. his show must be playing at the mental institution
Report Post »Riffraffman36
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:56amMr Jackson a man of god ********. You bring hate wherever you go that way of being is not walking with god.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:56amThat’s a stretch even for Jesse. Just more from the dare to say anything crowd.
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:51amJesse Jackson, Al Sharptounge, Louis Fairy Khan, Maxine Waters, Van Jones etc etc……ALL have the same speech writer:
Blah Blah Blah Racists, Blah Blah Blah Uncle Tom, Blah Blah Blah Racist, Blah Blah Blah it’s cause he is black, Blah Blah Blah we are owed…………..
Report Post »biffo
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:50amThe race hustler lynches the truth everytime he opens his mouth. MLK is spinning in his grave with Jackson, Jones and the rest of the black racists leading their people to the slaughter house of democracy…
Report Post »RougeFastFingers
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:47amThe left is so bankrupt they always try to make everything about teh 1960s civil rights movement.
Public Unions don’t need collective bargining, their bosses are not greedy robber barons, they are US, the TAXPAYERS.
Jackson can kiss my backside, he‘s urinating on the people who pay taxes who have watched greedy unions suck the money out of states so severly that many places can’t afford basic services.
Jackson and his cohorts are evil and unamerican.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:07amAgreed! Did you see this comment on The Blog yesterday
Blaze contributor Wayne Allyn Root predicts Gov. Scott Walker will win big on Tuesday:
A typical government employee receiving $100,000 per year, retiring at age 50 has, for all intents and purposes, been promised around $4 million dollars if he lives to 90. That’s before cost of living increases and, of course, free healthcare. Add it up. One employee is getting somewhere around $6 million as a golden parachute. One educator. One fireman. One toll taker. One lifeguard. How many of you taxpayers have a $6 Million retirement fund?
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/06/04/what-does-wisconsin-recall-mean-for-the-rest-of-us/
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:15amHere is the funny thing about the 1960s Civil Rights Movement that most people don’t know……it was the Democrats who were fighting against the Civil Rights. Now I know everyone is going to jump in and say I’m wrong but do the research it and you will see the truth. Look at who voted for and against the civil rights legislation and you will see that…for example the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the House, Republicans had supported the bill 138 to 34 – a ratio of 4 to 1 in favor. Democrats voted 152 to 96 against passing the civil rights law – barely 1.5 to 1 ratio. It was a Republican who pushed the civil rights laws of the 50s,64,65,68. Plus, who stood at the schoolhouse door in Little Rock, AK and refused to integrate the shool..it was a Democratic governor and Eisenhower sent the troops in there to integrat Little Rock. Research the Pettus Bridge incidnet that took place on March 1965 where black civil right marchers were attacked by 200 state troopers…it was known as “Bloody Sunday”. The sheriff on the bridge who was in charge was a Democrat.
Research and you will see the truth….but you have to truly look because the liberals/progressives have done all they can to hide the true history….If you don’t think it is possible then read 1984 by George Orwell.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 11:24am@Popp40
Right on! Great post! President Johnson…phoney!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:47amJackson is a radical, hater and baiter who only seeks his own self elevation over the wreckage of all others in the nation. He will stop at nothing to keep in the media spotlight; may the radicals fall to their own words and the truth that reveals the darkness they have in their hearts and deeds.
We take America back this Nov.
Report Post »Wildblue3
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:08amSteelhead, Glenn is providing facts in an unbiased manner and he encourages that you check his sources. I’ve never seen Jesse do that. Why don’t you leave the big boys table and go back to where you can drink your kool aid??
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:11amYou should change your name to Richardhead.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:13amhit a nerve and comments get banned
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:45amI just don’t get it….why is everything with Jesse about race….come on Jesse can you please work on some new material!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:58amHe like so many others, is a one trick pony.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:29amHe’s made a living doing it for 50 years, that’s why. This guy is in it for the money just like Al Sharpton.
Report Post »TheEDGE
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 1:21pmEasy money at that!
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:45amBoy, giving thanks for you is stretching me thin, you miserable piece of crap.
JESUS, YOU have told us to “give thanks in all things.” JESUS, do YOU know jessejackson? Well, in case YOU do, here’s my thanks for him and for all the evil, dark, black things he has done and continues to do using a title that should have been stripped from him long ago, “reverend”. I really, really wish YOU would kick his arrogant butt, LORD. That I could thank YOU for over and over and over again…. I know that time is coming, so in that reality I do give YOU thanks that he is setting himself up big time for YOUR attention. One of these days, GOD, I‘ll get my heart right and the evil that men do won’t bother me a bit because I will be HOME with YOU in my forever HOME. However, until that time… I just thank YOU LORD for YOU and for this time to pray in YOUR HOLY name, amen.
*sigh*
Report Post »momrules
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:27amGood Morning Kick……….Sometimes I feel a stretched thin too but I just keep remembering and repeating *Thy will be done.*
Report Post »momrules
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:45amWhen people not only say things like this and other believe what these people say how can any reasonable person expect a free and fair election in Wisconsin today?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:51amMorning, MOM~~~ Good thing we are “peculiar people called by HIS name”. Praying with you all day long for GOD, COUNTRY and all things good.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:02amWhy are the haters NEVER held accountable for their words? Who actually listens to them? Even the most intellectually-challenged can recognize hate and lies.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:19amIs it just me, or do you ever listen to Jackson, Sharton, et all, and say to yourself, what the hell are they talking about? They get so far off track and lie to the point where it takes me awhile to figure out out how any of it relates, and most of it just doesn’t. If they just mean to confuse and tick people off, they are doing a great job. Just jerks, period.
Report Post »TheKingfish
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:43amAtta boy Jesse, we can always count on you to get to the bottom of the barrel and evoke some sort of delirious race claim to get attention for yourself. Thank goodness the dopes that listen to you don’t vote much as they are too busy getting free money from the states and Obama.
Report Post »LameLiberals
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:39amJesse Jackson is ancient old – soon to die of old age any time.
But Fox hired his daughter who is as bad or worse. She is ugly as hell and bald – and tries to intimidate other pundits on a panel. I flat out REFUSE to watch her on Fox and turn the channel when she is on.
If Fox News wants to know WHY their ratings fell 7-9% – Jackson is part of the reason AND all the CNN left pundits that Fox recently hired. if I want to hear the left – I can hear it on CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS. I don’t need it from Fox.
Report Post »bandi9
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:49aminclined to somewhat agree with you about Fox. Love it, but they sometimes try too hard to show their “balanced” side, i.e, Jackson’s daughter, Tamara Holder, Bob Beckel, Alan Colmes. These people are idiots.
Report Post »litteacher135
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:51amI agree; Fox is running to the left and I can’t stand it anymore. All those commentators who once had enlightening discussions have become wishy-washy and continue on Fox. I have stopped watching or even listening to the show on Sirius. Jesse Jackson only shows up when something is hopeless and he helps in burying the issue even deeper in the sand.
Report Post »deerfawn
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:59amI actually like that they bring on differing views. Don’t agree with them, but then I can avoid watching the lib. news and still hear what they have to say.
Report Post »IndyGuy
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:36amDesperation!!!
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 9:42amTruly an understatement.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:21amWhen TOTALLY desperate, feel free to use your “RACE” card. HAHAHAHAHA
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on June 5, 2012 at 10:54am“Defining moment in Civil Rights History!” Why didn’t at least one person ask Jackson if he would say the same thing if the Governor were black? Jackson and the Rev. al and Bill Clinton would be screaming discrimination and being disinfrancised. We have so much political correctionious you only hear white jokes and if you do say one of the old black jokes you are tarred and feathered and put on the rail. Look at Zimmerman and he is half Latino! If he were black it would it would just be a fight between two brothers. If Zimmerman gets a fair trial he will walk free and I hope he sues The Panthers and all who attacked him.
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