"The eldest son of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. took a swipe at the former Democratic presidents who paid tribute to his father during a memorial service on Friday.
""I listened for several hours to three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson," Jesse Jackson Jr., the late reverend’s eldest son and a former congressman seeking to win back his seat in Congress in this fall’s midterm elections, said on Saturday at Jackson's final memorial service at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s headquarters on the South Side of Chicago.
" 'He maintained a tense relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were white or Black, but the demands of our message, the demands of speaking for the least of these—those who are disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected—demanded not Democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice that at no point in time sold us out as a people." More
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