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Jesse Jackson: ‘We Must Revive Dr. King‘s War on Poverty’

Jesse Jackson Tells GOP Candidates to Talk about Race on MLK Day

Rev.  Jesse Jackson honored civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. by spending a night with the homeless, and encouraging GOP candidates to address racial issues.

NBC Chicago reports that Jackson awoke Monday morning on the floor of a homeless shelter on the city’s Near South Side. Jackson had visited and prayed with the homeless at the shelter Sunday night, telling NBC that the millions living in poverty in the United States is a moral disgrace and something that Dr. King understood and wanted to actively change.

“We must revive Dr. King‘s war on poverty and his Poor People’s Campaign,” Jackson told NBC Chicago. Calling Dr. King the true precursor to Occupy Wall Street, Jackson said ”Our priorities have put us in a predicament where we have somehow cushioned those on the deck of the ship but those in the hull of the ship are in big trouble.”

“It’s really desperate in these streets.”

While he is spending the day working with the poor, Jackson tells POLITICO he plans to tune in to the Fox News Channel/Wall Street Journal GOP debate from South Carolina Monday night.

“I want to hear from them — do they support Dr. King and the New South movement? Do they appreciate Dr. King’s legacy?” Jackson told POLITICO. “These candidates talk about free enterprise, but do they understand that there would be no Boeing plant in South Carolina if blacks and whites couldn’t work together? That you couldn’t have CNN with a segregated Atlanta, or a Disney World in a segregated Florida?”

“I’ve not seen one of them with African-Americans in their ads or going to an African-American church,” Jackson went on to say of the 2012 hopefuls. “It is an irony that they are having a debate on Martin Luther King Day, when all of them are running on state’s rights.”

Well, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich did in fact hold an event at an African-American Church in Jackson’s homestate of South Carolina, where the candidate was met with some hostility. 

Jackson ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988.The civil-rights activist was born in Greenville, and was with Dr. King when he was assassinated in 1968.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:43pm

    jesse jaaaaacksooooon,
    SHUT THE FORNICATION UP!
    You race baiting racist pig

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    • Agnes
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:48pm

      Great comments!

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    • ThemDemsLie2much
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:01pm

      Translates into “We must go out and get jobs” Jessie!

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:03pm

      MLK was a registered Republican.

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    • FNTM
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:11pm

      Jesse has obviously found a way to scam whatever he is touting now. The shameless huckster!

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:15pm

      Pony up, Jesse, no one is stopping you. You talk the talk but never walk the walk!

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    • robert
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:26pm

      “Jesse Jackson: ‘We Must Revive Dr. King‘s War on Poverty”

      I’m for welfare to people who need it, which includes food stamps.

      But has the constructiuon of the welfare state been responsible for 70% of out-of-wedlock births to blacks and an explosion of crime wherein blacks account for 12% of the population, but create 58% of all violent crime? (US Dept of Justice)

      And is it this welfare society that is responsible for black failure, along with hate-mongers in the black communities who encourage black on white attacks, telling blacks they can’t get ahead, because whites are oppressing them and holding them back, instead of telling them the truth that most of them just can’t compete on a professional level without welfare and AA?

      How about having a “war on poverty” where the truth is told and demands are made for these people to try to learn a trade in order to care for themselves instead of relying on the state?

      Huge numbers of blacks are in prison, because they refuse to try to learn a trade, plus they find it easier to sell drugs and commit crimes than spend time learning. They like it when some black demagogue tells them their lack of achievement is some kind of nonsensical notion that whites are behind every tree plotting to keep them from succeeding.

      As long as blacks keep blaming whitey for their failures, the black community will continue to deteriorate, and no amount of social benefits will change that.

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:28pm

      Jessie Jackass Jackson is a dirt bag. He was an oportunist ready for profit.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:48pm

      “Resist we much” ~ Al Sharpton
      Translated…gimme gimme gimme..

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    • barnsy
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:54pm

      We need a war on Jesse’s 1960″s archaic thinking. This approach to poverty has been failing for almost 50 years. Time for a new approach. The reason Jesse and the other “ poverty pimps” dont want it is that it would put them out of business.

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    • ACLUHater
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:01pm

      Here we go again with this illiterate moron.

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    • AOL_REFUGEE
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:10pm

      Someone tie off that superfluous, methane gas bag and set a spark to it.

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    • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges07
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 8:03pm

      “Jesse Jackson: ‘We Must Revive Dr. King‘s War on Poverty’”

      LOL Ol’ “shake-down” Jackson be one fine *****. Yo, broffa. Nice threads!

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    • pavepaws
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 8:36pm

      After sleeping on the floor one night, he went back to his posh existence.

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    • thingthatmakeugohmmm
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 9:43pm

      Woner if he realizes GOP abolished slavery, with huge resistance From the Democratic party, nevermind facts don’t matter

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 10:33pm

      Get into it Jackson. You‘ve demonstrated that you’ll do nothing if there’s no money in it for you. And are you speaking about all who suffer poverty??? or just blacks??? yea, we all know.

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    • Ruler4You
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 10:45pm

      Sorry Jesse, you’ve used up your credibility a long time ago. Pack your bags. Your checking account has been closed.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 3:16am

      I do so wish Jesse Jackson would quit riding around on the back of Dr. King. Jesse Jackson has never had an original thought in his life. He is an opportunist and puts his face in the media every chance he gets for something that is not his business (so does Obama.) Jesse Jackson would not even be known if it was not for Dr. King and his movement. I do not consider Jesse Jackson a man of honor or originality. He is a cause taker for his own aggrandizement and so transparent I doubt he could ever get elected to any serious office outside of something to do with taking up imagined racist causes. There are just as many different ethnic groups hurting in this country, but as long as someone can conjur real or imagined hurts and plead causes for many who do not deserve, it there will always be someone out there who feels justified in blaming their problems on someone else or another race, or even their own parents. It all just is boring now. Just washed over and boring. Everyone needs to pull their own weight and not wait to be pulled in some wagon by someone else.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 10:58am

      Jesse sees everything as black and white MLK war was against Jesse and those who think like him.

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:05pm

      The lefts “War on Poverty” is better defined as the lefts “War on working people’s paychecks and bank accounts” since that is where they get their payoff money to redistribute to the so-called impoverished.

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  • Chappy123
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:42pm

    Jesse,

    How about white people living in poverty? Do they count?

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:45pm

      We have had a war on poverty since LBJ … where has it gotten the poor??? Stuck in a mentality and world where they think it is virtuous to be “poor” … generation after generation. Time to stop and make people accountable for their own lives and futures.

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:55pm

      JJ – go away. Take your hate with you.

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    • lodgerat
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:05pm

      Jesse doesn’t want to win the war on poverty because him and sharpie sharpton would be out of a job. They wouldn’t have anyone to blackmail. I don’t think they care about poor whites because they never mention them.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:16pm

      Jesse spent the night in a HOMELESS shelter on the SOUTHSIDE of Chicago???
      Isn’t that the area that Obummer “ORGANIZED”?

      On Drudge–report of the county morgue is 500 dead bodys full
      Chicago HMMMM War for votes?

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    • gmoneytx
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:18pm

      Nope just the blacks!

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    • crackerone
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:23pm

      Where did he give that speech? Hymietown?

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    • capitalismrocks
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:36pm

      MLK was for racial equality, it wasn’t about poverty. Poverty is color blind, it affects anyone. How about teaching people to stop sitting with their hand out, however about a hand up – stand up, get on your own two feet, feel proud of yourself as a person. Now go to a public library, go look around, read some books on things that you have an interest in. You like construction – learn about construction methods, go to yard sales and buy old used tools, clean them up and do small work around the neighborhood. Like landscaping – buy an old lawnmower, fix it up and start doing lawns around the neighborhood, then offer spring planting and pick up flowers at home depot or other places and charge to plant them. Learn electrical work and learn to run telephone and cable tv wiring, you like painting – go to the free workshops at home depot and learn techniques and then offer painting in neighborhoods. People can learn and do anything, there is nothing holding anyone back or down, they just need to stop listening to the Jessie Jacksons and Al Sharptons and listen to the Herman Cains and David Webbs

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:36pm

      .
      We have spent $10 trillion to fight poverty since LBJ.
      What has it gotten us?
      The destruction of the black family and more poverty.
      Jesse Jackson is only worried about HIS bank account, he’s doing very well.

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    • tmplarnite
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:38pm

      This lowlife crook and thief has no high ground here….He and his ilk are morally bankrupt

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:40pm

      Someone tell rev jackhole that MLK war wasn’t on proverty it was on equality as in being treated equal. Content of character not color of skin. MLK wasn’t fighting for hand outs, entitlement,or affirmative action he just wanted blacks to have the same chance as everyone else. A chance to suceed or fail by their own hand…Jesse and his poverty pimp parade have distorted MLK into KHM.
      KARL HEINRICH MARX

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    • Viet Vet
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:41pm

      How many billion have we poured down this rat hole so far?

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:57pm

      Using MLK as the “predecessor” to the OWS, is like using Melchizedek as the “predecessor” to Stalin.
      In fact MLK was a GOD fearing Republican in the days when the Democrats were racist bigots, in other words if MLK were alive today he would still be a republican ( libertarian conservative ) and we still live in time where the DEMOCRAT liberal socialists are racist bigots. How times haven’t changed.
      And Jesse, MLK did kick you out from being around him, because you are a racist bigot.

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    • hwyphd1
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:09pm

      It’s gotten so welfare is a family business passed on to the next generation and they stay proud..

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    • turkey13
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:16pm

      Jessie is mad because his 9% is down to 3%.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:54pm

      Poverty will never end…. The black poverty pimps will make Damn sure of that !!!!!

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    • blackyb
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 3:25am

      They want their and ours too. They have been taught by liars that just because they are black they are looked down on, so there are some who want to think everyone owes them something. They fell hook, line and sinker for this. They have been used by clever politicians to hate and to vote to keep the hate going. The ones who divide are the ones who are gaining. Those who are supposed to serve as government officials have their roles reversed so as to put the populace in a subservient position and are using people against people to do this. That is the only way they can stay in power. If people stopped and listened to their hearts and elders of what is right and wrong and study the Bible (KJV) they would know right from wrong and these lying politicians and opportunists could not divide the truth. God is our true leader and that is what has held this country together. His laws and goodness is what lasts. People have a tendency to be selfish, but if people are taught right from wrong and quit taking Gods commandments away from the young they will have a chance to grow in strength and grace. The way it is now, everyone is having to be badder and meaner than one another and that does not make for peace in communities. We all had better stand up for the Ten Commandments.

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  • instantclassic9
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:41pm

    Does He Know Martin Luther King was a Republican?

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    • badswing
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:47pm

      who asked for access to the ‘great vaults of OPPORTUNITY’ and the ‘riches of FREEDOM’….NOT ECONOMIC JUSTICE….

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:57pm

      He’s too busy stealing peoples money.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:21pm

      I’m sure he does know that. He also knows that it was the modern Democratic Party that passed the Civil Rights Act.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:51pm

      @PubliusPencilman

      Eisenhower signed the GOP’s 1960 Civil Rights Act after it survived a five-day, five-hour filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats, (including then Senator Lyndon Johnson).* And in 1964, Democrat President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act after former Klansman Robert Byrd’s 14-hour filibuster, and the votes of 22 other Senate Democrats, including Tennessee’s Al Gore Sr., failed to scuttle the plan. (Johnson only signed the bill when it was politically expedient for his presidency and the Democrats).*
      *Parentheses content, mine. Not the author’s.

      Oh yeah…One more thing…Martin Luther King was a registered REPUBLICAN. In fact, most blacks in the 50‘s and before were all registered Republican’s.

      “My grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., or ‘Daddy King‘, was a Republican
      and father of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a Republican.”
      Dr. Alveda C. King

      From David Barton’s book, “American History In Black and White”

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 3:49pm

      Rational Man,

      Yes, many African-Americans were Republicans up into the 1960s–this dates back to reconstruction. At the time, one of the strongest factions of the Democratic Party was the Southern white male vote. However, over the course of the 1960s, the parties went through a large-sclae realignment. African-Americans began to vote Democratic, and Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” aggressively courted Southern white males disillusioned by the Democratic Party’s movement towards a civil rights agenda. The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act accelerated this realignment.

      So, when you say that MLK was a registered Republican, you are talking about a party that was very different from what the current Republican party is, and the same goes for the Democrats. So please–read a book.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 6:49pm

      @PubliusPencilman

      Maybe you can help me out? Since I’m too ignorant to read a book, maybe you could explain to me when and HOW did the Republican party turn into the “racist” party??? How has any of their policies changed since the Civil War?? And how and when did the Democrats become the champions of Black people. Just because the racist Democrat KKK members and LBJ fillibustered and refused to vote for the civil rights bill until LBJ was president and could “claim” credit for it, DOES NOT mean that the Democrats suddenly had a change of heart from their history of radical racism since the Civil War. It only means that the Democrats changed their tactics to propaganda and bad policies that keep blacks people on the Democrat plantation and gained the minority vote thru the same propaganda. And many black AND white people are too stupid to even know that they have been duped………Like you for instance!
      Republicans have always tried to prosper all by giving them a chance to get a job and prosper according to the individuals ability. Democrats keep people tempted and dependant on a handout, instead of a leg up and by telling lies, keeps their uninformed voting block.

      Maybe try reading a book that is not written by the propagandist and actually includes real history and indisputable facts.

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    • phil1765
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:45am

      PubliusPencilman
      That is some pretty grainy history you are typing there buddy. The Democrats were dragged kicking and screaming into the civil rights act, LBJ was one of its most adamant detractors behind closed doors. I guess you guys just twist anything that happened more than 10 minutes ago into whatever you think will most benefit the demoncrats. I grieve for the fact that the true intention of the party is to actually keep black citizens down and at the mercy of government. Sad very sad indeed.

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  • love the kids
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:41pm

    Have you ever heard the term, “why did you bring a knife to a gun fight”? What I mean is the first step to fighting poverty is, get a job. The second thing is that whites just go out and interview and get a job that is open. Blacks complain that the job, “Won‘t support their family or I can’t live on that”, then they say they wouldn’t get the job anyway because they will give it to some *******.
    If you don’t want to be poor, make good, longterm decisions in your life, work hard at everything you do, be honest, and never look for a handout, take pride in doing it yourself.
    It seems like blacks are fighting a fight that no one else is fighting. I don’t hear whites say I wont hire a black person, or we need to keep them out of jobs.
    Just get out and do it, you will see the results .

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:25pm

      Yes, because whites NEVER complain about not being able to support their families…
      Do you understand the irony of you writing off discrimination as an issue while forwarding a thoroughly racist view of what “whites” and “blacks” do?
      You’re an idiot.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:30pm

      Whites complain about supporting other family’s.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:14am

      Pensilman wrote,Yes, because whites NEVER complain about not being able to support their families

      You’re a effing idiot,There are 3 white families living below poverty for one black family. My dad worked two jobs jsut to make sure we had a roof over our head and the child support for my mom and sister was paid. I had to drop out of school at 16 myself and get a job because he got sick and had to give up one job. You‘re either a complete moron and swallow the lies or you’re just a liar. POVERTY ISN‘T COLOR IT’S A STATE OF BEING.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:39pm

    TO revise my earlier posting, when did King have a war on poverty and why does JJ do everything he can to demoralize the black man?

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  • Chappy123
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:38pm

    Dont we have enough wars going on right now!

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 7:50pm

      This is even worse than that. The “War on Poverty” has been raging since LBJ in the 60′s, and there has been no discernible progress made on the battlefield. I think it is long past time we call it a lost cause and try from different angles, because right now all we have to show for it is loss on a scale that would make, Afghanistan, the War on Drugs, and Vietnam combined look like Pyrrhic victories.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 6:34am

      Remember LBJ said “I’ll have these ni**ers voting democrat for 200 yrs” when he signed the bill establishing welfare. Good Democrat

      OMG

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  • IrritableGimp
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:37pm

    Step 1: Go get a job!
    Step 2: Refer to step 1.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:26pm

      Yes… because the unemployed in American right now just never thought of going out and trying to get a job.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:37pm

    Since when did King have a war on poverty?

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    • Bobj_1960
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:30pm

      That is exactly what I was thinking. It was my belief that Dr. King’s war was on racial inequality of ANY sort.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 2:57pm

      This is what I was always taught. I guess it’s not jazzy enough for the modern day demagogues.

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    • LibbytheLiberal
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 4:25pm

      Before his death he was planning a massive protest to get the government to do more about poverty, protested with labor unions, called for a guaranteed income and said that there would never be equality without a vast redistribution of political and economic wealth. You tell me.

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:37pm

    This race pimp and his corrupt son should do America a big favor and move to Yemen…

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    • Agnes
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:43pm

      As long as the move is PERMANENT.

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  • caleejr
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:36pm

    I want to hear from Dr. King himself – either recorded word, or written word where it was about Black Poverty. It wasn’t – Jessee Jackson is the one who has HIJACKED the movement for his own personal agenda. Using money on women, corrupting people to keep it quiet, misappropriating funds that people TRUSTED him with – but he keeps on – and he keeps on….because if he were prosecuted, it’d only be “because I’m _____” insert color of race. He fails to see – Dr. King’s message was about ERASING racial boundaries – not CREATING THEM and STRENGTHENING them.

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  • poster
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:35pm

    Right on, Jesse! Let’s give every Black man in America a Budweiser distributorship like you got for your son. Was that your personal “war on poverty”?

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:51pm

      I think it was when Jesse was “admittingly” spitting on white folks food. Hows that child support thing coming along Jesse?!?!?!

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:34pm

    Welfare for everyone! WooHoo!

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  • modilly
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:33pm

    Revive the war on poverty? When did it ever stop? With half the populace on some form of GOVERNMENT assistance, how can he say that? The war was lost long ago. I think that in some circles it was never intended to be won since the it was retreat from the gitgo by discouraging individual responsibility.

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    • jdare
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:42pm

      President Johnson began his so called “War on Poverty” when the poverty rate was 13% Decades later with more money spent on this war than all the assets of the Fortune 500 added together and now the poverty rate is 13.4% The truth is that it isn’t a war on poverty, it is a war on capitalism. Jesse Jackson is a race pimp and a poverty pimp and he is going to do anything he can to promote both. TEA! Fair Tax!

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  • TheReasonableLib
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:32pm

    aaahhh, I can‘t wait to hear the racist neocons get King’s beliefs completely wrong. Bring it on because a history lesson is in order.

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    • Lord_Frostwind
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 8:01pm

      Truth of the matter is we don’t know very much on what his beliefs were on this subject. People love to puppet their words through his dead lips, but the fact of the matter was he was dead before he could express much belief one way or another on this subject. It’s kind of like when people say “Well Lincoln wanted to do X during the reconstruction of the South” but he was dead before any of those plans could be implemented. Who knows what his opinion would be after he saw how all the welfare programs that have tried and failed to bring equality turned out.

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  • Ken123
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:31pm

    your own pulpit and mimic Jackson or get of your Axx and take a job, even if it is below your status.

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  • cessna152
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:29pm

    Dear Jesse Jerkson,

    Did you know that the poorest family in the USA is among the richest in the world? Yes, the poorest USA family is in the top 15% of the world‘s richest and it’s people like you that enable them to tear down the system that will set them free. We the people are no longer sitting idly by…it is quite evident.

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    • Demaslut
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:34pm

      Forest Hills

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    • IlovemyAkita
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:38pm

      thanks cessna152
      for reminding JJ about poverty!

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    • michael48
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:38pm

      the poor in the USA are the 1%ers in the world…imagine that..the ows crowd is not going to like that…no tents, sleeping bags or FREE FOOD…party’s over, face some actual reality…

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  • RichNGadsden
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:28pm

    War On Poverty, how many decades has this been a failure? Somebody needs to read and understand Einstein’s simplest and most comprehensive theory. As an African-American for commanding officer pointed out to me a couple of decades ago, “Racism is a cottage industry, and the likes of Jesse Jackson are professionals extortionists within the industry.”

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:35pm

      War on poverty, tell your people to get off their a>> and get to work. Maybe Jesse and Sharpton should invest their money in the black community, have them start business’s make something of themselves, instead of waiting on reparations from whitey.

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:37pm

      That “for” should be “former.”

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  • Dismayed Veteran
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:27pm

    The Straw Boss is keeping the slaves in line. His is Lyndon Johnson’s dream come alive and the Democrates will have the black vote for 200 years. Sad. Very sad.

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    • IlovemyAkita
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:36pm

      The sad part is that the democrats have the vote of blacks because they hung them if they did not. Learn history people. The KKK was formed by Democrats to make sure blacks (and whites for that matter) voted for Democrats. wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up.

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:37pm

      Quack Jackson owns more slaves than the blacks did in the1800′s. Going to an African American church involves travel to another country and I wouldn’t feel safe unless I was allowed to defend myself. It’s a jungle out there!!!

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:24pm

    Mr Jackson has no idea about the real message of MLK, to Jackson, like with Obama all that matters is the redistribution of wealth and the destruction of America.

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  • jcannon98188
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:23pm

    Ron Paul often speaks about the inequality of the Justice Department targeting African American Males. Just sayin.

    RON PAUL 2012!

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:33pm

      So he is the reincarnation of MLK? Aligned with Jesse , Al, E Holder, Shelia, Barry, ???

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:02pm

      Well, well…maybe we should have Ron Paul day and name a street in the bad section of town after him.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:21pm

    That’s EBONICS, for Screw the Rich, Screw Whitey, Screw anybody of Any color if they have anything,

    Dear Jesse
    Come and Take It

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    • HKS
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:33pm

      Has anyone ever seen Jessie’s w-2? Since he took it from the poor, maybe he could give it back.

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:46pm

      I paid my taxes and it was given to the Jackson people, yet my lawn still needs mowing. Somethings wrong with this picture!

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  • PATRIOT802
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:20pm

    Jesse, You need to go away ! For a so called religeous man all I’ve ever heard from your mouth was Racism and Hate. MLK would be ashamed to call you Brother or Friend.
    Your time is over….We need a Leader and a Healer in the White House and your not helping any American, Democratic, Independent, Conservative or Republican. Just please go away !

    God Bless America

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    • GeneTracy
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:39pm

      Yes,Jesse please go away.At least go and keep up with your child support payments.I‘m fairly confident you’re keeping up with your “moral” and legal obligations.But it just seems like when ever there is a camera around…..there is Jesse.Maybe you could join Al Sharpton on ‘PoliticsNation’,then no one would see you.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:16pm

    You may shut up and sit down, OR leave the room, NOW, you arrogant ____________.
    (Fill in the blank test, AMERICA!)

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    • Obama Snake Oil Co
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:24pm

      Yes, this is coming from the man who supports keeping blacks in welfare ghettos for generations without hope of bettering themselves. So rather than help blacks reach for the sky, Jessie beats them back into the plantation to survive ignorant lives without hope. I find it hard to believe that people would see that as a “life”. But as long as they are good democrats and Vote D, they will get their monthy dole as long as they keep their mouths shut and do as they are told. Of course we could make them go to school or take a job with the city after a period of time…but the democrats won’t allow that…..cause they care……

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    • Ken123
      Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:33pm

      2012 Pied Piper.

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:16pm

    Jesse Jackson is a racist bum

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  • Plan B
    Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:13pm

    J O B = War on Poverty

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