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NAJEE ALI: An open letter to Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. (1470 hits)


*Just passing along a email that came my way*

NAJEE ALI: An open letter to Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.



July 10, 2008

*Rev Jackson, your vulgar tirade caught on tape by Fox News where you said you wanted to cut Barack Obama's nuts off and accusing him of talking down to Black folks by giving moral lectures at churches is the last straw for me and a growing number of African Americans who are outraged at your comments.



There are many Blacks across the nation, myself included, who are appreciative for the work and contributions you have made in your civil rights career. But at this point, you're hurting Black America and Obama.



In September 2007 it was clear that you were frustrated by Obama, when you stated in an interview in South Carolina that Obama needs to stop acting white, because you felt he was not engaged in the Jena 6 movement enough to your liking.

Rev Jackson your continued verbal attacks on Obama are unwarranted it's as if you're jealous that Obama has eclipsed you and both your campaigns for the Democratic nomination by actually preparing to win it as the 2008 presumptive nominee.



Jesse Jackson & Barack Obama

For years you have been criticized as an ambulance chaser and opportunist. Many of Dr. King's insiders and aides say that King did not trust you. 40 years ago in Memphis as King lay dying from an assassin's bullet your first thought and action was to smear your shirt with Dr. King's blood.



You then proceeded to appear in Chicago the next day on several news programs wearing the same shirt you deliberately smeared with his blood as if you were the heir of King's movement. Obama's recent comments about Black fathers not abandoning their children and accepting moral responsibility in our lives is a lesson you apparently needed to learn when you were younger. If you had, it may not have caused you to cheat on your wife and father a child out of wedlock with a former staffer.



Maybe that's what really bothered you about Obama's message to the church that Black fathers should be responsible for their children; you certainly haven't been.



Jesse Jackson and daughter Ashley

Living in Los Angeles I have watched your ten year old daughter Ashley Laverne Jackson grow up. Over the years I have had the pleasure to spend several holidays with your daughter including Christmas, her birthday parties and other milestones in her life. I will never turn my back on Ashley her mom and their family. It's about providing friendship, support and love to them while you have been missing in action.



Your daughter has never traveled or taken a trip with you, you have an annual birthday party in Beverly Hills every year where your entire family is welcome but your youngest child has only attended it once. She has had very little contact with her siblings and has never even met her big brother Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr, who apparently doesn't want anything to do with her. And allegedly (I believe it to be true ), he was the one to leak the scandal to the media concerning your affair. Now don't get me wrong, Obama is not above reproach. He is a politician and is fair game to be fairly criticized by you or anyone else. But to personally attack Obama is crossing the line. Obama is not talking down to Black people; he wants you and other dead beat dads to spend time and care for your children properly. The destruction of the Black family and absentee fathers is a major problem in our community.



It's a problem that King spoke out and fought against. 40 years after King's murder I can see why King didn't trust you. If you can't and won't sincerely help Obama in this historic run then at least stop attacking him. Listen to Obama's message of being a responsible father and start taking care of your daughter Ashley.

Najee Ali



Posted By: WILLIAM W. HEMMANS III
Thursday, July 17th 2008 at 8:21AM
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I just want to add that I am not pushing a candidate and I am not vouching for the validity of the things said in this blog.
I was caught off guard by Jesse Jackson comments. This has been a hot topic. I do have my views, but I thought this was an interesting read and I do want to be responsible in posting this blog. Some people agree with Mr. Jackson and some people stand up for Mr. Obama.
Even though I am not pushing a candidate I do find myself having empathy for some of the comments against Mr. Obama and his family.
Anyone seen or heard about the magazine that used a front cover cartoon about Barack and his wife and a common handshake that not only we as black people in general use but all kinds of athletes, different cultures etc.? Its as if certain groups of people are knitpicking to find faults and in my opinion showing their predjudice. I even saw a person that is a elected official state that "All Black Women Are Angry or Griping About Something", on national t.v...
By the way I am not fond of these people that write columns that are always opposed to black people or those not for Bush such as, Michelle Malkin (She states she is not Asian but American...), Ann Coulter (I recall she called Barack, "Osama") and Rush Limbaugh (Enough said), I would love to debate some of these individuals...
Thursday, July 17th 2008 at 8:40AM
WILLIAM W. HEMMANS III
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