Jackson: Black Voters Deserve A Return On Election ‘Investment’ Yep, Jesse, Barry got yo back. Be sure not to bend over.
November 10, 2012 1:19 PM


CHICAGO (STMW) – The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday said that President Obama’s reelection was “a great victory,” but that it would be incomplete with a reconstruction of urban America and an investment in the communities where the blacks who voted overwhelmingly for the president live.

“We’re happy and full of pride,” in the president’s reelection, Jackson told the crowd at the Saturday morning forum at Rainbow/PUSH headquarters, 930 E. 50th St., “but our houses remain raggedy … our schools remain closed.”

Despite attempts at voter suppression in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, Jackson said, blacks turned out en masse to vote, enduring waits that stretched into hours in many places. “We waited, we voted, we believed,” Jackson said. “Now we want to get well.

“We voted early, we voted long. Our votes won,” he said.

Rev. Jackson, who spoke longer, louder, and more forcefully than he has in some time at the Saturday morning Rainbow/PUSH meeting, asked the crowd, “What do we want? We want, we want, we want, we deserve, we deserve … a return on our investment.

“What’s good for us is good for everybody. What’s good for blacks is good for everybody.,” he said. “We bled too much, we died too young, we cried too much, we prayed too long, now we want a return on our investment.”

Referring to those voter suppression efforts, he said, “these acts of meanness had unintended consequences.” Rather than keeping blacks and Latinos away from the polls, voter ID measures and the curtailing of access to the voting booths made people more determined to vote. “Suppression became stimulation and people fought back,” he said.

“We fought back,” and the battle was won, but the war still remains, he said. “If we vote and don’t bargain we get nothing. A Jacuzzi filled with stagnant water will not get you well,” Jackson said. “You have to stir the water.”

Jackson said blacks, who voted for Barack Obama for state senator, for U.S. Senator, and now twice as President of the United States, should demand, bargain, and march if necessary, for an end to “patterns of race discrimination, (for) our share of jobs. We want faster public transportation to connect us to where the jobs are.”

He said black American also needs “access to capital,” noting, “It’s cruel to say. ‘jump in the pool,’ when there is no water. “

He also called for “fair trade,” a “domestic trade zone. We need a domestic OPEC,” he said. “In Chicago, for example, there are 100,000 vacant homes or abandoned lots; 40,000 in Baltimore. If we were to rebuild 25 percent, if we take down the boards and put in window panes, fix the broken sidewalks, cut the grass, fix the roofing, we’d create more jobs than there are people, just rebuilding where we live.”

Jackson said, “there must be a plan for reconstruction” of urban America.

Saying that automobile companies and banks got bailouts, “we’re the people who provided the votes — we want to be bailed out. We need jobs, education, healthcare now. If we can be targeted for voter registration and voter turnout, target us for reconstruction, now.

“ We are the new mainstream,” Jackson said. “We are the America of shared hopes and shared dreams. We have the power, we have the votes.

“We waited, we voted, we believed, now we want to get well.” He then asked the crowd, “Do you want to get well? Are you willing to fight to get well?

“It’s time to sing a new song, of joy and hope,” Jackson said.

“It’s time to march again. March for healthcare, march for jobs. When we march great things come our way. “

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2012. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

His reinvestment into urban America is a joke. Does he actually think they won't be in horrific shape again a year (or less) from now after the novelty wears off? Fact is, if something is given to someone, they don't appreciate it or take pride in it. If you have to work for it, pride comes along with it as a bonus.

Jesse Jackson's house is just so raggedy............

http://www.flickr.com/photos/reallyboring/4160678488/

dont most voters vote for someone that is going to give them a 'return' of some sort

based upon their personal political priorities?

not really newsworthy,,,,

http://gopcapitalist.tripod.com/racecard.jpg
About time for the African-American Community to drop this Guy and his Cronies like a Hot Potato!

Silly me.... I thought your vote was supposed to be about what was good for the country, not what you thought might help a certain class or segment of it..... who now want something for it?

We are a Republic (we the people), not a Democracy (one majority or the other), and the sooner people figure out that difference the sooner we might start to fix what ails this country!

A wise man once said "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.".... voting for skin color, race, or class, expecting some reward in return..... part of the problem, not the solution!

The majority of Obozo voters (as shown in interview after interview) don't even know what his policies are, or have been! The labels say it all for them....

Obama phone....Free
Obama care.....Free
Green card.....Free
Foodstamps.....Free
Extended benefits....Love it!

These things are the majority of the issues for them (the uniformed media masses), they don't know or care about his abilities, his agendas, his politics, drone strikes, kill lists, NDAA or any of the real issues when asked, and when told, most don't believe the policies are his.... they just have no clue.... but he is a black man who gives free stuff to them (sadly, like the Obama phone lady that went viral).... they don't care how it's paid for or by whom.... most don't pay taxes so don't understand (the sad part.... everyone needs a decent job regardless of race, color, religion or creed), but Obozo and his administration are NOT job creators (by policy), and if the majority of his supporters were to become taxable citizens.....there might not have been a 2nd term in my opinion...

I also believe Robme would have been no better.... clueless as to the REAL problems facing the average individual! The master out-sourcer thinking he could create jobs under this congress of corporate/banker bought and paid for political grifters. It's all about the spending and regulation/deregulations stupid!

The 2 party sham! Opposing forces, chasing the same goal, located in the center of a maze, starting from different sides.... expecting a different outcome! WHAT A JOKE!

that is, jmo

corrections
obama care ...not free,, all who are capable pay for insurance
green card, not free,, there are fees and fines for all that paperwork to be paid by the petitioners



and wanting ones interests to be 'included' in the national agenda does not derail what is 'good for the country', being we are all a part of that country,,,,

should 'taxpayers' and business owners drop Romney for voicing his concern for their concerns?

Amesty to illegals....sounds pretty free to me when now all it takes is greasing the right palm!

ACA.... free when yer not making enough (on the record) to pay taxes, or when you do, get more money back!

Hard working, tax paying individuals pay the price, not those receiving the benefits!

nothing in life is 'free',, so no making enough to pay a tax is equivalent to not 'paying' for the benefits of being a citizen?

working doesnt buy food or shelter, money does,, someone has to be willing to PAY you money for your work, and if that someone doesnt wish to pay you enough to afford to kick into 'income' taxes, thats hardly the workers fault nor should it be reason to disenfranchise that worker from basic needs,,,,



if only trick or treating had a middle man, the analogy might work

people should gripe so much about wages as they do who is paying taxes or not,, but Im sure noone is putting the funds into the type of campaigns that would ask more from employers and CEOS instead of asking more from hard working citizens, that dont happen to own several homes, cars, or stock options,,,

Yes they do. However, black voters keep re-electing the same characters that give them nothing in return for their vote. Why?

because its more than the LESS than nothing offered by the other characters,,,

OMG,you really think Jesse is s Straight Shooter?

Jesse Jackson: Jackson was the featured prime time speaker at the 2000 Democrat Convention. Jackson has a history of using anti-Semitic slurs and derogatorily calling New York City “Hymietown.” Jackson, a prominent self proclaimed "civil rights leader," is himself guilty of the same bigotry he dishonestly purports to oppose.

with "Leaders" like him and Sharpton you need no Enemies!

how many decades ago was the hymietown comment which he APOLOGIZED for making? and what has that to do with the validity of what he has stated in the OP?

Problem is,he hasn't changed his MO!
Still a Rip-Off Artist!

I wouldnt know about that,,,,

I still feel his comments here are relevant and unnewsworthy

I don't agree. Votes are worth something and should be given to those who are deserving of them. That's why we have elections.

yes, they go to those who are MOST deserving,,,not those who are prefect