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| Jesse rips Hub on race: Furor over 'trash talking' rev |
| 2004-07-28 |
| EFL.Can you shakedown a city? Well Jesse will try. Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the city's black leaders are spitting mad over racial potshots the Rev. Jesse Jackson took at the city of Boston yesterday. ``Jesse's talking trash and blowing smoke. This is Jesse's showboat,'' said the Rev. Eugene Rivers, chair of the National Ten Point Coalition and one of the city's most respected leaders on racial issues. Pretty bad, Jess. Even your own people are starting to see through the bullshit. Jackson stoked the Hub's racial fires yesterday as he headed into the FleetCenter on the second day of the Democratic National Convention, saying Boston has yet to live up to its promise as a center of racial justice and equal opportunity for minorities. Yeah, Barry Bonds told him. He's here about as often as Jesse. Which is like...never. ``There is such a class gap between the haves and the have-nots,'' Jackson said. ``If you look at inner-city Boston and the suburbs, it's like there is a doughnut and then there's the doughnut hole.'' See Jesse's been here a whole 3 days and already has it all figured out. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #4 I have always thought that Newport RI provides an excellent example for use against class warriors. Tour the Breakers and then explain how the gap between the rich an poor is widening. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-28 1:51:41 PM |
| #3 have MORE racism and bigotry. I gotta get some coffee..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-07-28 12:28:08 PM |
| #2 BAR, Jesse doesn't give a rats ass about blacks or any other minority. He just goes around shaking people down like NASCAR. He would like nothing better to have move racism and bigotry. I am not saying that there isn't racism, there is -- but Jesse (and RAINBOW/PUSH and the NAACP for that matter) isn't doing anything to fix it and has no intention of 'fixing' anything. It is nice that people are finally seeing though his bullshit. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-07-28 12:27:29 PM |
| #1 Jackson also expressed particular anger toward Harvard University. ``Harvard has a 20 billion dollar endowment. Not one black has ever managed a dime,’’ he said. Big damn deal. Sorry, but no one owes blacks any positions. They can earn them like everyone else. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-07-28 12:14:40 PM |
