there is no proof that i know of. not that he didnt but do you believe everything a guard/cop says lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by malfeas99
there is no proof that i know of. not that he didnt but do you believe everything a guard/cop says lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by malfeas99
i dont know why eveyrone gets mad at jesse jackson.. when hes been the word of african americcans for alooooong time. its not like he goes around finding things to defend...
I really don't have much of an opinion on this, but just to counter this: He was sentenced to death in 1981, "reformed" in 1993. Like quickdodge states, he was in a rough place. Shit's gonna happen, but notice these dates? Why is it so difficult to believe that people can be reformed?Quote:
Originally Posted by malfeas99
The problem with Jesse Jackson is he will not speak out unless there is something in it for him. He gets paid to make appearances and fight on someone's behalf. If there is enough media coverage he will show up so he can get his face on the news and in the paper. The great Rev. Jesse Jackson has how many children in sin now? He is not in it for the people he is in it for himself. Sure it may benefit other people but if he has nothing to gain by it then he won't fight for it. There have been and there are alot of other african americans who have and who are speaking out on others behalf and they do not get the same recognition. I guess Jesse has promoter's just like boxer's do. I wonder if Don King has promoted any of his marches.
Jesse jackson is one of the few along with him and mr. faraqon (sp) and al shaprton. They speak people listen thats why they get all the coverage. Whats int it for jesse jackson to go and talk with tookie?
Publicity! Jesse loves it. If a white dude farts near a black citizen Jesse is there with the media. If there is proven to be no fart Jesse will make up some rhyming mumbo jumbo for the camera. He's a joke, a wannbe star, and by constantly having press confrences he has succeeded to some degree. Even my black friends agree.Quote:
Originally Posted by JITB
Tookie got more humane treatment then his victims. I am not a huge fan of the death penalty but he seemed quite deserving.
So the entire judicial system is governed by how people feel between the beginning and end of their sentencing?Quote:
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Sure, for some sentences there's possibility for parole, but that's not for SERIAL MURDERERS.
Tookie got the death sentence. It took decades to carry it out. If he'd have been executed in 1983, like I think he should have been, we wouldn't be having this assinine 'rehabilitation' argument. Have you had a look at any research exploring the 'rehabilitation' rates of serial killers? It's laughably low. Beyond that, we live (ostensibly) in a society where we are ruled by law, not ruled by whatever people feel ought to happen at a particular point in time. The sentence was death, and barring evidence proving his innocence, there was no reason for clemency.
The fact that he's been nominated for a Nobel prize and that Jessie Jackson and Louis Farakkhan are speaking up for him only solidifies my resolve in the matter, frankly.
Exactly my point if Jesse won't get exposure he won't show up. He is addicted to media exposure. People don't even listen to him anymore, when he shows up it's a media circus and a carnival. He is not serving the African American community, he is not serving god he serving himself and his hunger for media exposure. It's seems like it's a drug for him to be honest, he gets off on being interviewed and trying to look like a hero. That is only my opinion on this matter.
They should bring back the electric chair for guys like him. fry his azz! we're all better without people like that in this world.
Don't forget his hunger for extortion money from his corporate shakedowns. That's important also.Quote:
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No that is my general opinion as well. :goodjob:Quote:
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lol wow since when does JESSE JEACKSON Need exposure. Famous publc speakers get payed, bill clinton gets payed, miniser faroqon gets payed, along with al sharpton, and many political figures, thats what jesse jackson Does thats his job.. hes the voice for people who want their problem aired. The craziest thing is you say that he doesnt get any attention, but as soon as he speaks every gets all angry.. and does waht..... LISTEN, he gets payed to make people listen to problems. Whats the point of having a person like that if noone listens. Wannabe star? hahah plz get out of here, u act like he just popped up ou of noowhere.. have u ever cracked a history book mr malfeas?
Noone made this a race issue... its funny becasue everytime jesse jackson gets involved soemoen always thinks its a race issue. Has the word white - black came out of his mouth? Thats the most funniest part. He serves people that ask for his help
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Originally Posted by JITB
I am largely unable to respond to this statement because it is borderline incomprehensible.
I will say, from what I understand of the comment directed at me, that yes, I have 'cracked a history book', and yes, I know far more about Jesse Jackson, and I daresay, EVERYTHING, than you.
Please DIAF and save us all the headache of attempting to read your incoherent babble.
My response to you
lol its ok.. if u dont have anythign worthwhile to the "discussion" than just retort to talking down and acting important.
My argument/debate
u said JJ (yes i call him JJ cuz hes my homie!) is a wannabe star?
if u did crack a history book you would know who he is and what he has done, and what he does.
And he will never be a "star" hes a public figure.
So when he speaks people listen, thats why people ask him for help in situations..
My closing comeback and lasting attack...
DIAF? come on who says that anymore... this aint NASIOC.. u can put you guard down.
hopefully that wasnt too difficult for u to read...i spaced it out, and labeled the statements accordingly for you this time... soo u can take you time and understand
Consider the following hypothetical. David Duke, former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, murders, in cold blood, four innocent blacks. But, wait. Duke later renounces the Klan and pens children's books urging white kids to reject racism. But he refuses to accept responsibility for the murder of the four innocent blacks, claiming that a racist jury convicted him for his reputation, not for the murders. Imagine Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx, Ed Asner or the NAACP organizing a campaign to spare the "redeemed" Duke's life. I doubt it!
National Assoiation for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) what am I? Clear?
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That's a little better. If you'd done any actual research on Jesse Jackson, you'd understand that he is, in essence, a race pimp. Everything is race to Mr. Jackson. This is the guy that wiped MLK's blood on his shirt and then lied about him 'dying in his arms' afterwards. This is the guy that shakes down corporations with threats of lawsuits, and when money is forked over to various 'funds' that he controls, he runs away, whether or not anything has been accomplished. This is the guy that because he's not getting media attention, offers to 'negotiate' for the release of hostages in Iraq. Assholes like this are not concerned with racial equality or justice, because if racial equality or justice ever exists in their lifetimes, they will CEASE BEING USEFUL. Their job is to CAUSE racial discord and benefit from it. People like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakahn all fit into this category.
I'm done with you. Since 'JJ' as you put it is your 'homie', I doubt anything I say is going to make a dent in your idiocy. You can do your own homework about this, I have better things to do. Go here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/089...books&v=glance
There's a book about the other side.. since it's obvious you've never so much as dipped a toe into any negative information regarding your 'homie'.
ooooooooooh fight!
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if u base you thoughts on someone on a book, someoen writes abot them to expose them. Than you arent worth discussing with anymore. Its ilke getting your facts about the president and our government from watching fahrenheit 911. It jsut seems like every black political figure is always questioned about there purposes, and always gets blamed for bringing up race. when it never uttered out his mouth. SOo why bring it up if that wasnt an issue in the
beginning?
"Their job is to CAUSE racial discord and benefit from it. People like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakahn all fit into this category. "
soo your saying that they just get payed to cause racial discord amongst us.. all the time? Racial discord is always there regardless if they speak abou it or not. I honestly never looked at the tookie situation as a race issue, and i really ahvent heard much talk about it being a white - black thing. Its mostly been a political thing for arnold, word around was that this decision was gonna make or break his political career.
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Wrong. I base my thoughts on a lot of different sources of information. The reason I sent you there was not necessarily to get information about the book, but to read the reviews and comments, which might open your eyes a little bit. The man is a self-serving political hack, and he's a race pimp.
You are right, the Tookie situation isn't a race issue. But Jesse Jackson has made it a race issue. That in and of itself should prove my point.
how did jesse make it a race issue?
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by getting involved. if it was a white guy, he would have put the needles in himself. everything the man does is racialy and politicaly motivated. and everything to him, if it involves a black person, is racial.
Malfeas, I happen to agree with you about "JJ", but my post was in response to the post explaining all the shit the man did in prison. I will reiterate that I don't have much of an opinion on this particular issue, because it doesn't "hit me deep" or anything, and that I DO believe in Capital Punishment, on the whole. however, the man claimed to rehabilitate, and the record shows; he went in a murderer and deservedly was charged with the death penalty, and acted like a murderer, but he DID rehabilitate, and that is my point. If somebody in this country could get charged with manslaughter and jail time with possibility of parole, based on if they "get better", then the death penalty should have a form of "parole", which could be NOT death, just life, if they "get better." The point behind the establishment is not JUST for keeping bad guys off the streets, but to rehabilitate them into functional citizens, and my "fight" is if he could serve as a functional citizen behind bars, and do what he can to keep kids from joining gangs, then he is doing better that way than in death, where there is a possibility of an outlash that will have an adverse effect. He deserved his sentence, as does (I believe) most people IN jail, but he responded to jail the "correct" way and found a sense of peace, and could possibly have been useful alive. Just my opinion, and I would feel the same if it was a KKK member, if he was truly rehabilitated.
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lol my point proven... its like you all are making it a race issue. All the man did and does is speak out for african americans and all of a sudden hes a racists...lol. But a guy speaks on killing off all black babies to reduce crime rate and its doesnt really mean anything. Funny how that all works. when has he ever spoken down on any other race, never... soo why is he blamed for making everythign racial. and "if he was a white guy" isnt valid, plenty of white guys have had clemency alnog with blacks. soo "if" isnt really a good example. It was a political issue and race wasnt really a part in this whole situation.. Soo again i ask how was tihs ever a racial issu?
That, I can agree with you on. I don't see the need to carry on, for years and years, a death penalty sentence. Get it over with is what I feel. It takes what, a few minutes tops, to put a man down? Later, QD.Quote:
Originally Posted by malfeas99
[QUOTE=JITB]lol my point proven... its like you all are making it a race issue. All the man did and does is speak out for african americans and all of a sudden hes a racists...lol. But a guy speaks on killing off all black babies to reduce crime rate and its doesnt really mean anything. /QUOTE] i disagree with you on jesse speaking out FOR african americans. the majority of the events he shows up for already have media attn. thus the reason he is there. as for the second part Bill Bennet (i believe thats who it was) should have never said that even in hypothetical terms it doesnt mater what what race you fill in the blank with. i just do not see the conection between the 2
Once again, you show how little you actually know about the man you idolize.Quote:
Originally Posted by JITB
Jesse Jackson was relegated to a non-entity in the presidential election in 1984 in part because he was overheard in public calling Brooklyn 'Heebietown'. And that's what what he slipped up with and let people hear in public. When are you going to get it through your head?
I'm fairly certain that you never actually looked at the context of the 'kill black babies to reduce crime rate' statement. Let me link the story from a VERY left leaning website, dailykos:
Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching, extensive extrapolations" by declaring that if "you wanted to reduce crime ... if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." Bennett conceded that aborting all African-American babies "would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do," then added again, "but the crime rate would go down."
So. I don't think he was a proponent of aborting any black babies. That doesn't mean what what he said wasn't statistically true, because it is. Does truth make you racist?
ive honestly never heard the word heebie ever..
malfeas im with you completely on this one. i believe that jessie jackson uses the media to soley create racial unrest. its people who act in his manner that cause the racial divide
Heeb or heebie is a derogatory slur used for Jews, usually orthodox or hasidic Jews.Quote:
Originally Posted by JITB
You've never heard it? I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. Go email your pal 'JJ', he obviously is very familiar with it.
Seriously, that's just the tip of the iceberg.
see there u go taking shots, i just said i never heard that word before.
I took a shot because if you knew 'JJ' well enough to use his initials and call him your homie, you WOULD have heard that word before.Quote:
Originally Posted by JITB
Want to keep having a pissing contest about who knows more about the 'Reverend' Jesse Jackson?
I'm not sure you'd enjoy it at all.
man that was a joke, get over it really. i didnt want to type his whole name out so i typed JJ. this was never a pissing contest, it was a simple discussion. somewhere int he line u turned it into soemthing other than that about who knows more. I never said i knew more.. i just stated how i feel on the subject. I never argue with he facts i argue with crazy assumptions that are being made on the whole tookie situation. Thats why i never discredited the whole "heebietown" incedent i never heard about that before. and ive never heard that word. And i dotn idolize the guy, im not even into politics.. i only watch it when something happens. I didnt agree with you all saying that this whole tookie situation was racial since jesse got involved. I think i put my foot in my mouth when i said he never made anything into a racial thing. but clearly, this thread being about the tookie situation.. I will stand by it and say it was never a racial situation even after JJ's envolvement.
Okay, fair enough, if you don't think it's a racial situation, especially after Jesse Jackson's involvement, ask yourself this and answer HONESTLY: Would he be there if Tookie was any other color?Quote:
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Probrably not , because jesse jackson has always been for blacks. Soo why is it a suprise that hes helps blacks. just because he helps 1 race out alot, doesnt mean he hates the others. its not like jesse jackson and the NAACP popped up one day and said hmm lets stick up for blacks and only blacks because everyoen else is bad. WE all know why it was formed to keep everythign fair fo all colors. So why is it soo bad that jesse jackson helps blacks most of the time i mean he is black. If tookie was white, some say he woudl have lived, if tookie was mexican soem say tookie would have died, if he was asian some say tookie would have died.
Most of your post is painfully naive, but the root of it is this: Because Jesse Jackson almost always 'only' helps blacks, especially in situations like this, there are almost always racial overtones that come along with his involvement, even if there's not a direct racially charged statement that comes out of his mouth (which is a HUGE rarity, I assure you).Quote:
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As for the rest of what you said.. I'm sorry you feel that way. Most black folks nowadays don't even think Jesse Jackson speaks for them. He is a corrupt politician and charlatan with the BEST of them, and he does it via race warfare. You really think Jesse Jackson wants true racial equality and no racial tension? If there's true racial equality, he becomes a non-entity.. almost entirely useless. So, as is the case with most politicians, he exists to further exacerbate the problems he claims to champion against, but in a way that he can steer to his own ends, increasing the power he has and the money he can make.
The whole situation never crossed my mind as being racial... until i read this thread.. thats why i posted.
I agree that it's not racial.Quote:
Originally Posted by JITB
My point was that there are people that will try to make it racial to further their own agendas.
oh yea thats for sure.. theres fools out there..
see in the end we agree... :)
I can't say what someone else hasn't already said but, tookie did deserve to die whether or not he has "helped" others with their gang related issues. It was never about racism at any point. I do believe in my own opinion that Jesse Jackson tends help the african americans and others more to his own benefit rather than the people his is trying to help. I belive he has always been a crooked politician ever since his name has been on the board and its a shame that some people just don't see it. just my .02.