Rev. Jesse Jackson

HOTELS Great Hotel Deals The Rev. Jesse Jackson warns of `jail hotels' The Charlotte Observer   Related Images: The ociated Press The Rev. Jesse Jackson has warned against prisons becoming "jail hotels" during his annual Christmas visit to the Cook County, Ill. , jail. Jackson told 500 inmates gathered to meet him Thursday that people must stop thinking of prison as "free meals, medicine, heat and recreational activities. " He urged them to vote and get tested for HIV. Jackson's Chicago - based civil Read more..   Related Images: Press Release Dueling hotel plans off Rte. 128 do not answer downtown need Gloucester Daily ... Read Full Story

THE N-WORD’S Funeral: On Monday, July 9, 2007 , during its 98th Annual National Convention in Detroit, Michigan, the NAACP will conduct a mock funeral to bury the N-Word . Delegates and supporters of America’s largest, most respected, oldest, and most effective civil rights organization will convene at Cobo Hall for a march led by the casket containing the N-Word to Hart Plaza where there will be a funeral service for the most vicious of all racist insults – the N-Word! Black people need to quit. I am serious. If you buried the word, why ressurect it? If you put the word in the ... Read Full Story

The campaigns are sparring over comments by Rev. Jesse Jackson arguing that Barack Obama’s foreign policy will mean an end to “decades of putting Israel’s interests first.” According to a report in the NY Post today, Jackson told an audience at the World Policy Forum in Evian, France last week that the “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” will lose influence under an Obama administration. “Obama is about change,” Jackson added. “And the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is a change of the way America looks at the world and its place ... Read Full Story

Rev. Jesse Jackson was caught making “crude and hurtful comments” about Barack Obama in an interview with a Fox News reporter on Sunday. Unaware that his microphone was still on, Jackson was asked what he thought about Obama speaking in black churches, and at one point says he wants to “cut his n**s out.” The Rev. issued a statement at a press conference in Chicago on Wednsesday: For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. My support for Senator Obama_s campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment. My appeal was ... Read Full Story

Ya know... sometimes the reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson really get under my skin. They always seem to be vying for attention. Since Michael Jackson's passing, the two have been in what seems to be competition with who has the most influence within the Jackson family affairs. Why is it so important for them to be seen AND heard!? Shouldn't Al be out pressin' his perm and shouldn't Read Full Story