Run Jesse Run-Lest We Forget, Behold! The Great Opportunist

''There's no doubt that the Mexican men and women -- full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work -- are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States,'' Vicente Fox, President of Mexico, Friday, May 13, 2005

Fox made those remarks in Puerto Vallarta one day after his country announced it would formally protest recent United States immigration program reforms which include extended walls along the United States borders & make it much harder for illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses.

As usual, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, never a man to waste a great opportunity on putting his two cents in told CNN that Fox’s comments were “unwitting, unnecessary and inappropriate.”

Fox’s own country’s newspapers deemed his remarks as “racist” and “controversial,” as well as many people, including Jackson.

Ah, Jesse Jackson. Such a man to speak such words. Lest he forgets about making such remarks, but yes he did make such remarks a little over 21 years ago to black Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman when during a conversation with Coleman referred to Jewish people as “Hymies” and to New York City as “Hymietown.”

How thoughtful it was of Jackson to think or assume that Coleman would never run or print any of those remarks because of Jackson’s supposed “racial bond” with the reporter.

But lo & behold several weeks later, out came those words came right back to bite him directly in the tongue when the words appeared in another Washington Post article, written by a fellow reporter and colleague of Coleman’s in an article detailing the former shadow senator of Washington, D.C. unstable relationship with American Jews.


Protests a-plenty occurred and of course, Jackson firstly denied he had ever spoken those words and then as usual, accused Jews on rallying together and conspiring to defeat him, another typical stereotype deemed of the “Great Jewish Conspiracy,” fueled this time by Jackson.

Even more frightening was the self-imposed order of protection issued by his good friend and old ally, Nation of Islam’s chief violinist and orchestra leader, as well as known anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, who threatened Coleman in a radio broadcast shortly thereafter and also issued a general public warning to Jews everywhere, made alongside his good old buddy Jackson's presence, remarking, "If you harm this brother (Jackson), it will be the last one you harm."
A month later, Jackson wisely decided to “give up the ghost” with an emotionally-charged speech filled with self-imposed guilt, sought sympathy and acceptance in the presence of national Jewish leaders in a Manchester, New Hampshire synagogue, instead of his beloved “Hymietown.”

Still at that point, Jackson chose not to distance himself from Farrakhan, which subsequently led to wariness between Jackson and many Jews, including this writer.

For all the great actions Jackson has produced and otherwise served, there is one thing you must always remember that Jesse Jackson is no more a minister than he is an opportunist. It’s a well known concept, that in his case seem to go hand-in-hand. For the record, Jackson did flunk out of Divinity College, so he is NOT a minister.

Anyone can call themselves a minister, including Al Sharpton, who also had made some grievous errors in his past, but seemed to have made up for them later when he ran for President of the United States in 2004 and looked pretty darned good for a time to voters.

Yes people do make stupid remarks, for whatever reasons they feel is bothering them at any given moment, but a supposed national civil rights leader? For all the good that Jesse Jackson believes he has done & those who admire him, there’s also a lot of bad that he has created, refuses to acknowledge and the moment someone attacks him, they are considered a racist. Simple as that. If he enjoys serving the people he serves, then he should act responsibly and accordingly.

Stupid remarks take on a whole different connotation. To some they are just stupid and ignorant; others in a politically correct world would deem them as racist or controversial. Have we become that robotic that everything that is ever uttered out of someone’s mouth is racist and controversial automatically?

Did Fox mean what he said? Well, in a way, low wage jobs aren’t exactly desired by everyone & I have seen immigrants from many countries taking the jobs that no one (whites, blacks, Asians, etc) seems to want to be doing anymore.

Even Mexico’s foreign relations secretary Luis Derbez, related that President Fox’s remarks were not aimed at racism, but was trying to emphasis that Mexican migrant workers are making valiant efforts to the United States and that their role in aiding the United States' economy in that way, “is a positive one.”

To make the remark he did was a bold move, it wasn’t a wrong thought to exercise, but to Jesse Jackson, who often forgets about what he says & then turns around to say that Fox’s remarks were inappropriate is just plain ludicrous.

So keep at it, Jesse. Keep trying to make remarks that make you look like a bigger man than everybody else, but instead, makes you look and sound more and more like a hypocrite. I’ll be the first to admit it, however, that this is one of the more beautiful characteristics that I admire about you the most, dear Jesse.