Tall, handsome and distinguished looking civil rights activist and Baptist minister, Rev Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. has played a role in empowerment, peace and social justice for as long as anyone can remember in America. He was on the Wendy Williams Show today bearing a gift of a box of Hostess Twinkies for Wendy. Referring to Michelle Obama he said “They have tell Michelle to give us a break on the Obesity campaign.” He also said to Wendy, “I’m so proud of your show. You got something going girl!”
On the love fest/talk show, where he fed Wendy the twinkies he brought, they also talked about Ms. Aretha Franklin, who has been making music for 50 years and is known for her social consciousness and wholesomeness as a person. He said he has known her since they were teenagers. He also said, Aretha and Harry Belafonte did a tour to raise money for Martin Luther King when he couldn’t meet payroll at one time and he was a regular fixture at Aretha’s parent’s home in Detroit, Michigan.
Rev Jackson whose mustache is legendary and will soon be celebrating his 50th wedding anniversary with his wife, Jackie shared on how they grew up together, shared jail cells, and how she’s a bona fide social activist and civil rights leader in her own right. However, they hit a big bump in 2001 when he had an affair with writer and professor of Pan-African Studies and Politics, Karin L. Stanford, that produced a 12 year old daughter named Ashley, which was suprising to many, especially after he was one of President Bill Clinton’s advisers when he was going through the Monica Lewinsky drama.
When asked about that, the Rev. responded by quoting the lyrics of Donnie McClurkin's song , “We fall down, and we get back up again, and you care enough and try enough. You can trust Wendy to push his buttons by saying, “Word on the street is that you’re not paying child support, set the record straight, Rev,” referring to the $4,000 monthly child support payment he is supposed to be paying, but some say he is not. To which he didn’t explicitly respond by stating that he is paying, but said something about both he and his daughter’s mother are working on it.
When asked about his oldest son, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. going for Obama’s Senate seat, he said, "He has been in Congress for 15 years and has done quite well as a scholar activist. I look forward to his re-election. He’ll win.” The "Good Rev" ran for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, and is credited as being one the people who paved the way for Obama’s Presidential nomination and win. When asked if he was jealous when Obama won, he was said he was excited because his win was a redemptive thing for African Americans and that he saw him recently at the Martin Luther King Statue Dedication in DC. Defending Obama, he also went on to say that Obama been under attack ever since he become president even though he has been pairing down on the war, the troops in Iraq are coming home and there’s job recovery.
He also talked about MLK and his last act, which was planning the Poor People’s Campaign, which was to try to get poor people benefits they deserve and how the things MLK stood for are being undone, leaving people powerless, lost and frustrated because they can’t get credit, don’t live as long as they should because they don't have health care and don’t have help. He also said of Obama's critics, “We need people who see the world through a door and not a key hole.We need broad vision in high places.”
The Rev who is also the head of the Rainbow Push Coalition, which protects the rights of minorities on Jan 25-27 will host the Wall Street Economic. Visit www.rainbowpush.org to be part of the struggle for economic justice to undo the effects of the recession, which has caused the many businesses, homes and jobs to be lost in the US. All that Dr. Martin Luther King stood for is in jeopardy, do your part to ensure that doesn’t happen.
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