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Black Group Says Jesse Jackson Does Not Represent Them

By Maria Elena Kennedy CNS Correspondent January 16, 2001

Los Angeles, Calif. (CNSNews.com) - Chanting, "One, two, three, four, Jesse Jackson, there's the door!" a group of black and Latino protestors marked Martin Luther King Day by demonstrating in front of Jackson's Los Angeles office.

Billed as the second annual "National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson," the event's organizers said they wanted to show blacks and the rest of the country that Jesse Jackson is a "profiteer" who makes money from exacerbating racial tensions in America.

The demonstration was organized by the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (B.O.N.D.). The group's president and founder, the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, says he will continue to hold this event annually until "Jesse Jackson repents of his wrongs."

In the press release announcing the repudiation demonstration, the Rev. Peterson described Jesse Jackson as out of control.

"He has become a national embarrassment," Peterson's press release said. "He is a self-serving racist, a problem profiteer who with the help of the liberal media, has co-opted Dr. King's dream and turned it into a nightmare."

In addition to the Reverend Peterson, the featured speakers at Monday's event included former Reform party vice presidential candidate Ezola Foster, Barbara Coe of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, Joyce "Rejoyce" Smith of Rejoice Ministries in Houston, Texas, and Pastor Wiley Drake, whose First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park works with homeless people in the area.

Smith drew smiles and nods when she told the group what she says to people in Houston-area housing projects: "You allow Jesse Jackson to come into your housing projects with his rent-a-mob. He will limo into the housing projects and he will carry on all this foolishness and then he will limo out of your housing projects and you are still here in the midst of your rats, your roaches, your crack heads, your crime...and you allow Jesse Jackson to come into your community and preach his hatred.

Smith said the only circumstance under which she would consider listening to Jackson "is if he was living in the projects." She said she is offended at Jesse Jackson "and that ilk" for running a political ad during the presidential campaign suggesting that Texas Gov. George W. Bush was somehow responsible for the death of James Bird.

"I don't take that lightly," she told the group. "I did not see Jesse Jackson on C-Span or any of those 'Spans' repudiating that foolishness that my then-Gov. Bush had something to do with it."

Smith dismissed criticism raised by Jackson and others, who complained that Texas does not have a hate crime statue. "All crime is hate," she said. "I don't understand no love crime. If you're going to have a hate crime, then you have to have a love crime," she told the crowd.

Reform party vice presidential candidate Ezola Foster told the crowd that blacks must "recognize the new slave master."

"Open your eyes and see who it is making you more and more dependent on Master Government," Foster said, blaming Jackson and other "so-called black leaders." She specifically mentioned the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the Nation of Islam as having "solidified their partnership."

"These are the slave masters who have presided and administered billions of federal and local dollars to educate black children, and 35-plus years later our black children are as educated as Booker T. Washington was when he was emancipated from slavery at age 9 in 1864. Now that says a lot," Foster concluded.

One anti-Jackson demonstrator, Mario Arroyo, leaned on a large wooden cross throughout the event. He said he came to the demonstration because of his belief that Latino janitors in the Los Angeles area had been "used" by Jackson during the janitors' strike for better wages last year. At the height of the strike, Jackson flew to lend his support for the striking janitors.

Said Arroyo, "I'm here to tell the Hispanic community that Jesse Jackson is not for them, he's basically trying to use their weakness to promote his wealth. It's sad that he had to go out during the janitorial marches and take advantage of them because of their weakness and their needs. I'm here to tell them, he's not for them and doesn't support them."

In his closing remarks, the Rev. Peterson thanked everyone who came to the rally.

He lamented that Jesse Jackson had set "racial relations back 50 years. He told the crowd that the purpose of the demonstration was to highlight the differences between Jesse Jackson and Dr. Martin Luther King. Peterson said that Jesse Jackson has become a "racist demagogue" and had to be challenged.

Jackson's Los Angeles office was closed for the holiday and could not be reached for comment.

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), January 16, 2001

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BOND is a reactionary group of self-hating Uncle Tom neeegros supported by the racist John Ashcroft

-- (LeonTrotrsky@Potemkin.Village), January 16, 2001.

All Bush supporters are lying, scheming, right-wing nazis bent on turning this country into a Fasict Theocracy.

-- Open minded (not@like.RepuGlicans), January 16, 2001.

"right-wing Nazis"? Implying that there is such a thing as "left-wing Nazis"? Very good.

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), January 16, 2001.

ARE WE IN-WHAT'S KNOWN=''AS THE BEST OF TIMES'' YET?????

-- al-d. (dogs@zianet.com), January 16, 2001.

It's amazing how much anti-black and anti segrigationist "spin" is being shoved down out throats these days. Uncle Bob, what do you want? Do you want the "negro's" to go back to where they came from? Should women go back to being barefoot and pregnant, the chineese back to their laundries, the hispanic back to the fields, the negro's back to cleaning your house, wetnursing your babie, and the other meanial jobs they were allowed to do before civil rights changed these things in the 60's?

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), January 17, 2001.

I click on two threads and see two idotic remarks from Cherri.

Why aren't the asians taking to the streets Cherri? Why don't we see protest marchs lead by an asian Jesse Jackson? Maybe it's because they are too busy educating their children and working their asses off to improve their own lives?

I am glad to see that some black people are waking up to the fact that they are being used by demigogues like Jackson and Sharpton who create dissent to line their own pockets.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 17, 2001.

And Cherri, what the hell is wrong with havin the Mexicans work out in the field? At least they're willing to do it and they are damn good at it. You can't get a lazy ass white kid to go out there and put in a good days sweat. By the time they reach 18' they know all about tryin to find an easier way to do it. Some of these kids in this country wouldn't know a hard days work because they've been programmed that it's not in their best interest. Television did that. Somebody ought to smarten up and take a baseball bat to that wonder of technology! And the guys would have to change their wardrobe because it's pretty goddamn hard to work in pants that have the crotch hangin clear to your ankles. So ya see, field work isn't all mechanized and if the ladies and gentlemen from down south of the border weren't willing to put a hard day's work in, you would'nt have that apple to give to your illiterate teacher every mornin!

-- Boswell (fundown@thefarm.net), January 17, 2001.

Bos, "television" didn't do that; their lazy-ass PARENTS did that.

-- (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 17, 2001.

Well Patricia, you got me there, because you're absolutely right! And it's a combination of many ingrediants. Sitting down at least once a day at a table and having that special time with another is no more for many families. Having respect for one another in many cases is out the door. Having responsibility and knowing how do deal with it is a unimportant issue with kids. I have a lot of respect for oriental families because they know how to do it right. Give em a shovel and they can build the best damn foundation for anything and it stands the test of time. Alot of black kids on the other hand seem to put a lot of importance on how to hit a moving object with a 9mm out of a stolen vehicle and then when they do get caught, it's how fast you can run from the arresting officer. You send me 10 troubled black kids so I can put em to work out in the field come harvest and work right along beside me, make em sweat, make em compete, make em earn their keep and they go to bed right after supper dead tired and get them up at the crack of dawn and I'll damn well guarentee you that you got some young men that are proud of themselves and can show and tell someone else how it's done.

-- Boswell (fundown@thefarm.net), January 17, 2001.

Uncle Bob, what do you want? Do you want the "negro's" to go back to where they came from?

Nope...I want all ignorant white Anglo-Saxons to go back to Europe, though...

-- Uncle Bob (unclb0b@aol.com), January 17, 2001.

I click on two threads and see two idotic remarks from Cherri.
Good way to start your reply to what I wrote *rolling eyes*
Why aren't the asians taking to the streets Cherri?
By asking that are you saying that "the blacks" are?
Why don't we see protest marchs lead by an asian Jesse Jackson?
They have, there was a need for them to do it and they have marched. Are you again stating that "the blacks" are having protest marches? Where? In Florida where their votes were not allowed and documented problems have been found?
Maybe it's because they are too busy educating their children and working their asses off to improve their own lives?
Oh I see the problem, "the blacks" are not interested in teaching the work ethic to their children and do not do anything about educating their children, is that it? The blacks" don't work their asses of, is that what you are trying to get across?
I am glad to see that some black people are waking up to the fact that they are being used by demigogues like Jackson and Sharpton who create dissent to line their own pockets.
"The blacks" that do not like Sharpton do not necessarily dislike Jackson, you are the one placing them in the same basket. And the reason they do not like him are not because they believe they are being used by "demigogues who are creating dissent to line their pockets". You assume because "some blacks" do not like Sharpton it has to be the reason you express. So you know how "the blacks" think? Since you appear to be such an expert, tell me why they do not bother to encourage their children to work hard at recieving an education and make something out of themselves? Why do they consider learning a marketable skill as a possitive thing in their children's lives? Why do they want to raise their children to be drug dealers and gang members. Can you tell me why you thing "the blacks" are like this?

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), January 17, 2001.

"Why aren't the asians taking to the streets Cherri?"

Well, maybe because Asians were not predominantly affected by the voting fraud in Florida?

By the way, Japanese Americans DID TAKE TO THE STREETS in the 70s and 80s and won a huge federal reparations case for their people for having been wrongly interred during WW II. It's a long story that was hard fought and began on the Pacific Coast, and they FOUGHT HARD for years against bigots who cast them as "misguided" etc., just as you're trying to cast blacks as misguided right now.

Black anger is HUGE right now -- there will be a huge backlash against the corporate "cleansing" of voter rolls in FLorida by ChoicePoint, an Atlantia-based GOP funded company that told thousands of black Americans they were "felons."

-- Get a Friggin' Clue (clueless@GOP.com), January 17, 2001.

Cherri,

I hereby apologize for my opening remark, I'm sorry. Perhaps I should not post in the morning when I am grumpy.

Now, please don't get me wrong, I am not anti-black, and I am not a racist, but I am definately without a doubt anti-lazy whining ass motherfucker who wants the gubmint to fix his "woes". And Jackson and Sharpton (among others) are the leaders of that pack.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 17, 2001.

Black anger is HUGE right now -- there will be a huge backlash against the corporate "cleansing" of voter rolls in FLorida by ChoicePoint, an Atlantia-based GOP funded company that told thousands of black Americans they were "felons."

YAWN!

When is Black anger NOT huge. That's all they know what to do - bitch, bitch, bitch - whine, whine, whine. Always put the blame on someone else.

Typical.

-- tired of this shit (lazy-assed@welfare.cheats), January 17, 2001.

Black anger is HUGE right now -- there will be a huge backlash against the corporate "cleansing" of voter rolls in FLorida by ChoicePoint, an Atlantia-based GOP funded company that told thousands of black Americans they were "felons."

And for those of you who believe it is black folks who are mad about the election, you need to look again, there are a thousand non blacks mad for every black "complaining" about it. As will be seen during the inauguration

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), January 18, 2001.