OT They Just Aressted Jesse Jackson

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They just arrested Jesse for trying to take the students back into school. Here we go. I wished this town was more concerned about the school shutting down for everybody in January than just trying to get these kids back in. Oh well...

-- Marsha (MSykes@court.co.macon.il.us), November 16, 1999

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And they say there is no justice.......

-- PJC (paulchri@msn.com), November 16, 1999.

The O Reilly Factor had a segment on this subject last week. What the other networks did not report is that nearly all of the suspended students had prior histories of violence, vandalism, or delinquency within the school system.

The Rainbow Coalitor seems to be playing the race card, in order to get his name on the front page. He should leave these tactics for the Al Sharptons and get involved with larger issues.

-- O Reilly Fan (Fox@watcher.foxnews), November 16, 1999.


GREAT!Let's use him for Clinton Bait and lock the both of them up for good.

-- One down and (one@to.go), November 16, 1999.

Back in 80 or was it 84 when Jessie Jackson flirted with running for president his famous slogan was "Run Jessie Run".

They quit issuing it as a bumper sticker when they realized that lots of people were deliberatly putting it on their FRONT bumper.

I ain't racist, I just dislike all shameless opportunists no matter in what color they are packaged.

-- Dana (A_Non_O_Moose@xxx.com), November 16, 1999.


I guess that there is no chance that they would keep him, is there?

-- smfdoc (smfdoc@aol.com), November 16, 1999.


I never cease to be amazed at Mr. Jackson's penchant for injecting himself into so many crises, real or supposed, domestic or international, which have nothing to do with him.

gene

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), November 16, 1999.


Maybe if white students and black students were treated equally Jesse Jackson wouldn't have to use so much media scrutiny in Decatur.

--A white student who made a bomb threat at Roosevelt, another Decatur school, last week was suspended for three days, while the seven students involved in the Sept. 17 fistfight at a high school football game that wounded no one were expelled for two years.

Zero tolerance only for blacks? -It was the opinion of Illinois State School Superintendent Glenn Max McGee and the Illinois attorney general, and Gov. George Ryan, that students should be offered alternative schooling when the board reduced their suspensions to one year. The Decatur school board went against the advice of all the governing bodies above them to continue their racist policy.

And what of the white students involved in the melee? Funny how none of them were suspended for two years.

No justice. No peace. EVER.

-- Sickofracist (b.s.@freeyourmind.com), November 16, 1999.


Cross Post:

Jackson is a parasite to his race and the worst enemy they ever had. He has done nothing for them or anyone else.

-- Patrick (pmchenry@gradall.com), November 16, 1999.


To SickofRacist:

Check out the other thread on this forum listed about five lines below this one. Here there are a lot of flippant remarks (Myself for sure included). On the other thread most responses are pretty serious and they are getting pretty deep into the issue.

As you will see it turns out the violence was videotaped and these fellows who were kicked out have quite a past. (One is a three-year freshman.)Only when all of the evidence is in can a jury make the right decision. Jackson is trying to make this just a racial issue but there is a lot more involved than a simple black and white portrait.

Best wishes,

-- Dana (A_Non_O_Moose@xxx.com), November 16, 1999.


Dana- I've heard about that bumper sticker, only it had Hillary Clinton's name on it. Affixed to the same location though!

-- Gia (laureltree7@hotmail.com), November 17, 1999.


Jesse is from our town of Greenville, SC. He has a low-income project named after him. It is 100% black. Does this mean that we have no poor whites in this nice southern town. Nooooo, don't think so. His legacy here is a ghetto to match most of the ghettos in the US. You'll never hear him say anything about it.

Frankly, I believe that the majority of Greenville (60% black) would happily trade Jesse for about anything. But the trade HAS to be final...no welshing now.

Speaking as someone that has known 'His Highness' both directly and indirectly for about 18 years, please be advised that if past experience is any indicator, Jesse Jackson has NO interest in the future of 7 boys, just his own. Contributions to his church must be dropping again.

For those of you that moan and wring your hands in dispair over the way the 'boys' were treated, if the school board in Decatur would do their job the way they were told, this problem would not have surfaced and the national media would be without another circus.

-- Lobo (atthelair@yahoo.com), November 17, 1999.


Clearly he's making an example of this case, but perhaps Jesse Jackson has a valid point. Sometimes punishments don't fit the crime. Sometimes "getting tough on crime" reaps only votes for our elected officials, not less crime. Case in point: the death penalty. It does not deter crime (not conclusively, anyway) and it is administered arbitrarily against minorities, but it certainly gives the governor who supports it an advantage on Election Day. This is one of the few areas where I stand arm in arm with ultra-liberals like Jackson.

-- coprolith (coprolith@rocketship.com), November 17, 1999.

"Case in point: the death penalty. It does not deter crime (not conclusively, anyway)"

.....Sorry, but every murderer that ever received the death penalty has conclusively refrained from committing murder again.

-- Patrick (pmchenry@gradall.com), November 18, 1999.


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