07-18-2013, 12:39 PM
(07-18-2013, 12:19 PM)Maggot Wrote: There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. — the Reverend Jesse Jackson, as quoted in US News, 3/10/96
He's been addressing black-on-black crime since 1994, without much coverage from national media and with backlash from many in the black community.
I don't like it when he exploits white-on-black crime, though I support him or anybody else exercising their first amendment rights when there is good cause to believe that there's an actual civil rights violation that's being ignored. I also dislike what I consider his hypocritical positions on some matters (I feel that way about nearly every politician too).
But, I support his attempts to get the black community to really explore the root problems of black-on-black crime rather than considering discrimination by whites as the only or major contributing factor.
Unfortunately, he and other black activists don't get much issue-specific air time unless the issue is a controversial between-race one. IMO.