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Jesse Jackson to Obama: Come home and tackle Chicago’s gun crisis
“The president’s voice is so urgently needed here,” said Jackson, arguing that Obama’s presence would help draw attention to the complexity of the economic and social problems affecting areas like Chicago that compound problems related to gun violence. “[That alone] would illuminate the condition.”…
“You cannot police poverty. You cannot police broken dreams, you cannot police aspirations,” said Jackson. “This cannot be dealt with on just a citywide level. We have drugs and guns coming in, and jobs going out. In most of the areas where these shootings are taking place, the unemployment rate is between 45% and 55%.”
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Coming from JJ I have no doubt the irony is lost on him.
Gatsu on February 3, 2013 at 9:20 AM
keep dreamin’ there bub
its all about the O
cmsinaz on February 3, 2013 at 9:21 AM
You could stop endorsing the thug/baby mama culture. Long prison sentences also helps.
Blake on February 3, 2013 at 9:21 AM
I wonder what the demographic breakdown is.
I also wonder what percentage of these poor, disillusioned, broken down, unemployed souls voted for Obama. Again.
Washington Nearsider on February 3, 2013 at 9:22 AM
Interesting request from the Reverend, as I have always considered him to be part of the problem. His ideology has cultivated the culture that is thriving.
jediwebdude on February 3, 2013 at 9:23 AM
Forget tackling that crisis, stand it up in front of a firing squad. Literally. Misuse a tool whose purposes are to intimidate or kill – and the only hunting is for people in $hitcago so spare me that argument – you are a walking menace to every lawful person.
MelonCollie on February 3, 2013 at 9:29 AM
What dreams? Crack fueled fantasies don’t count.
OldEnglish on February 3, 2013 at 9:32 AM
I decided to expand on my original quote:
Interesting request from the Reverend Jackson, as most have always considered him to be part of the problem. His ideology has cultivated the culture that is thriving.
- Instead of promoting fathers being in the home, he promotes a victim-of-racism mentality.
- Instead of promoting a diligent work ethic, he promotes a minimalist work ethic, and the declaration of “racism” when that ethic is questioned by the employer.
- Along this same line, he promotes entitlements over earning.
- Instead of promoting racial harmony, he promotes exceptionalism and elitism for blacks – this, of course, is racist.
- Instead of promoting a desire to be a productive member of society, he convinces black people that they are victims of society.
- Instead of recognizing and agreeing with the black-on-black and black-on-other-races crime problems, he fights what he claims are racial stereotypes when non-blacks bring this up.
Think about it. If the inner-city/urban culture were to stop the crime, excel in their careers, have intact families, and be positive contributors to society all while achieving harmony with other races, Jesse would be out of a job.
jediwebdude on February 3, 2013 at 9:33 AM
…and then convince them to pay him.
James on February 3, 2013 at 9:37 AM
Maybe he could come to Chicago and talk down to the black people and Jesse you could give him a trim.
Flange on February 3, 2013 at 9:37 AM
Another metro area run by democrats; where exactly is the surprise?
roy_batty on February 3, 2013 at 9:58 AM
Or, here’s a novel idea, point out to the people of Chicago how their city is suffering due to the liberal policies and the corruption within the Democratic Party up there?
Chicago Jesus is part of the problem, not the solution.
ButterflyDragon on February 3, 2013 at 10:00 AM
When Bill Cosby suggested a few years ago that the problems in the inner city could due to generation after generation of unwed mothers raising kids without a strong fatherly presence in the home, Jackson nicely told him to be quiet – that sort of talk won’t get you big federal grants.
There was a post on a conservative site (can’t remember which) that noted not only the endemic gun violence in the inner cities but also the recent Sandy Hook shooting had a common factor: absent fathers. (Adam Lanza’s father mailed a child support check and didn’t see his son for the past few years. Even if the kid didn’t want to see his remarried dad, Mr. Lanza should have come anyway.)
Wethal on February 3, 2013 at 10:02 AM
Send in Rudy Guiliani and get out of his way.
BuckeyeSam on February 3, 2013 at 10:09 AM
You have it summarized in a nutshell, Wethal.
When the gang becomes the family and when the easy money of drug trade is an incentive to be at the top of the heap, then inner-city fatherless homes provide the gateway for violence.
Chicago has a history of violence going back to Prohibition days. The corrupt connection between cops and crooks is notorious in that city.
Chicago also has a plethora of illegals vying for turf.
There won’t be any jobs to attract the unemployed nor entrepreneurs willing to jeopardize their lives and life-savings in an atmosphere that cultivates gangland.
onlineanalyst on February 3, 2013 at 10:10 AM
Well, that tends to happen when extortionists like Jackson are always hanging around, ready to intimidate local businesses. A government that’s nothing more than a legalized crime ring doesn’t help either.
RadClown on February 3, 2013 at 10:11 AM
Obama: Rev, STFU. This is my home for the next 4 years. What happened, old man? You tried for my present home years ago, but lost, didn’t ya? Hahahahaha. You just plain jealous. And don’t even think that I’ve forgotten that derogatory TV comment you made about me, when you thought that the audio was out. I don’t forgive and I don’t forget.
tommy71 on February 3, 2013 at 10:12 AM
In too many poor neighborhoods, here and in the UK, the kids have never seen anyone in thier home get up and go to a job.
It’s welfare, generation after generation. They lack the basics of a work ethic because no one ever taught them one.
And with welfare, medicaid food stamps, Liheat, Obamaphones, and Section 8 housing, why work?
Wethal on February 3, 2013 at 10:15 AM
Bill Cosby too tired to comment
filetandrelease on February 3, 2013 at 10:17 AM
And the young people can’t get jobs because they can barely read, their speech is incomprehensible, and they have no critical thinking skills (or any other marketable skills) because the Chicago public schools are run by corrupt and incompetent unions, which are a key constituency of the Dim party. The very same Dim party which keeps so many of Chicago’s residents dependent on big government welfare hand-outs, and which encourages blacks and hispanics to believe in their perpetual victimhood.
The problem in Chicago isn’t the guns, it’s the idiotic and counter-productive policies promoted by corrupt and clueless Dim-o-crats like Jesse Jackson.
AZCoyote on February 3, 2013 at 10:17 AM
And what is Obama going to do? Wave his hands and wish hard and make it all go away?
Doubtful. When the gangs that are shooting each other up are probably discreet (Percentage of drug sales, protection, prostitution, etc) contributors to the Chicago Machine and/or specific campaign coffers.
Besides, isn’t illegal for the Fed to get involved in local politics?
Jack Deth on February 3, 2013 at 10:39 AM
Thank you, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Hey, hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids have you killed today?
rbj on February 3, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Yeah. I don’t know if this situation is even fixable at this point. What can you do to break that cycle? Someone drops out of school at 16, his options are minimum wage job or to make thousands in cash dealing drugs. Guy has no life skills, is barely literate, never knew his dad, and may or may not have a child of his own.
This is what 50 years of dependency culture does to people. It took many generations to get here… leaving the political aspect of it aside, is it even possible to change that? And how many generations would it take?
Sorry, city denizens — the dems have royally screwed you.
Timin203 on February 3, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Here’s your solution to the gun violence, Rev:
1. Ban everyone living in public and section 8 housing from possessing guns upon penalty of Death, except
2. Require everyone over the age of 35 living in public and section 8 housing who is without a felony conviction to carry guns, and supply them letters of marque and reprisal signed by the governor to enforce point #1, and then
3. Withdraw police for a year.
Giving anyone over the age of 35, who has made it thus far without a felony conviction, a license to kill would rack up fewer deaths (in the long run) than currently begotten from the feral gang culture.
shuzilla on February 3, 2013 at 11:25 AM
He doesn’t need you anymore, Jesse. Anybody actually.
Bill Cosby might be too tired to talk about this stuff since he was slapped down by so many in 2004 for his but if you are referring to the “I’m tired by Bill Cosby” essay, he didn’t write it, a MA state senator did.
thebrokenrattle on February 3, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Even Jerusalem, when visited in person by the Son of God himself, killed him. What can Obama do?
fossten on February 3, 2013 at 12:12 PM
Exactly. The author of Too Young to Die uses this to make some pointed accusations at treating young people as fodder for junk jobs.
Hey drug-legalizers: try to imagine how many people will choose honest work when they don’t even have to worry about being arrested for selling crack or pot or WTF-ever. Do you REALLY want that?
MelonCollie on February 3, 2013 at 1:54 PM