To Jesse Jackson, though, nothing was ever solved or improved, because that would mean the end of the money and the beginning of responsibility for one’s own life.
"When I think of the late Jesse Jackson, I recall my brother Andy’s encounter with him back in the 1984 presidential election. No one could beat Reagan, and Jackson’s run was just a vanity project for one of the country’s great publicity hounds.
"Jackson wanted to book thirty rooms at a suburban Sheraton hotel my brother was managing in Louisville before the Kentucky primary. That was the year of the million-dollar presidential primary boondoggles. John Glenn’s campaign to this day owes record amounts of money to creditors across the country. Naturally, the hotel’s owner and the Sheraton company were not eager to extend the struggling Jackson campaign credit.
"In the end, though, they did, and Jackson’s people were there a week; ordered room service without hesitation; and then skipped town, never paying any bills. Small price — what the hotel feared was Jackson’s talent for shaking down corporate America for money and favors by screaming “racism” at the drop of a hat...which he would have done if anyone had complained.
"Jackson’s career doing this began by running Operation Breadbasket in Chicago for Martin Luther King — a job placement project that Jackson turned into essentially a racket: Contribute to my organizations and give favors to my friends and family, or face a massive boycott. Not surprisingly, Jackson hired a young Al Sharpton to run the Brooklyn branch of Operation Breadbasket and learn the “business.”
"Dr. King’s body was not cold when Jackson and Ralph Abernathy (King’s deputy) began fighting for control of the SCLC. Jackson was with King in Memphis and is often accused of running to the hotel balcony to grab King’s body to smear blood on his shirt and solidify his status as King’s real successor. A few years later, Abernathy forced Jackson out of the SCLC under a cloud of financial irregularity, but that only emboldened Jackson, who set up the Rainbow Coalition/PUSH. He started national boycotts of sensitive consumer product companies — especially Coca-Cola and Anheuser-Busch. “Bud is a dud,” Jackson rhymed, before the beer giant eventually caved, even handing over the Chicago franchise to his youngest son." . . .
The other face of Jesse Jackson | Power Line
He seems to have had a weakness for terrorist thugs and Communist regimes. If your memory has blanks that need to be filled in, see the long, detailed, and helpful Discover the Networks profile for help in remembering the other face of the late Reverend Jackson.
. . . "Throughout the 1980s and 90s, Jackson also faced scrutiny for what has been described as a shakedown of companies and larger corporations accused of discriminating in their hiring practices and business operations."When a company was targeted by Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, it could purchase absolution from his organization in the form of large donations that functioned as a kind of bribe that was then used to fund Jackson’s lavish lifestyle while maintaining his appearance as a selfless civil rights activist."
Jackson did what Democrats do.
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