Thread: Jesse Jackson Calls for Black-Hispanic Coalition

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/12028205.htm
July 1, 2005

Jackson calls for black-Hispanic coalition

DAVID HAMMER
Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Standing at the site of a landmark school integration battle, the Rev. Jesse Jackson locked arms Thursday with leaders of the nation's two largest Hispanic organizations to repeat his call for a new civil rights coalition.

Jackson said it was time to recall the two communities' shared history of discrimination.

"While some were picking beans, some were picking cotton, but we were both being picked on," he said in front of Little Rock Central High School, where integration in 1957 was the first major test of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling three years earlier.

"Most of the people in the world today are young, brown, black, poor, female, don't speak English," Jackson said. "So let's join the real world: Si, se puede (Yes, it can be done)."

Jackson announced in May he was forming a group that would address issues affecting blacks and Hispanics including fair immigration policies and voting rights.

On Thursday, Jackson appeared with Hector Flores, president of the League of United Latino American Citizens; Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza; and Minnijean Brown-Trickey, one of the famed "Little Rock Nine" who integrated the high school under armed guard.

Jackson's comments come at a time of increased tensions between the two ethnic groups. Many blacks have sharply criticized Mexican President Vicente Fox recently for his disparaging comments about blacks and Mexico's release of a postage stamp depicting an old black cartoon character with exaggerated features.

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National Council of La Raza: http://www.nclr.org/

Rainbow/PUSH Coalition: http://www.rainbowpush.org/

What a freakin racist

W

Poor Jesse, he must be looking for work. When he showed up for Terri Schaivo, everyone said it was all for a photo-op. Everyone was right.

I've heard many religious Black Americans say that Jesse Jackson no longer speaks for them. So......I can only assume, this guy is in need of work.

All I can say is I hope we don't have to waste too much of our time discussing "el racist grande", Jesse Jackson.

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Will someone pleaae tell me why anyone even responds to Jesse Jackson? He isn't respected by anybody and the only reason he still has any power is because poeple GIVE him power. Every single black person I've ever known has called Jesse Jackson a pimp who talks a lot but never does anything. The next time this clown goes to some corporation with his latest racial shakedown attempt, the heads of that corp oughtta just say "hey you know what Jesse--@$%# you, we are giving you and your con artists a dime. Wanna play ball? Let's do it."

Such a grand-standing worthless effort. He doesn't "get" it or if he does, then he thinks more of his own publicity than his people or the United States.