Jesse Jackson gave a speech at UNC-Chapel Hill recently and demonized the Tea Party in some of the worst language I’ve seen him use. NRO describes this as Jesse Jackson channeling Joe Biden’s “Back in chains” remark:
COLLEGE FIX – In a recent speech to North Carolina college students, the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. stumped for Barack Obama and described members of the Tea Party movement as slavery supporters.
In a speech Friday at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, billed as a get-out-the-vote rally, Jackson drew a difference between the original Boston Tea Party, which he said aimed to “end occupation and wipe out the tea tax,” and the contemporary Tea Party, which he characterized as a group that wants to “overthrow our government, engage in secession, sedition, segregation and slavery.”
Jackson continued that the Tea Party “has lost that war.”
Referencing slavery in America’s past several times, Jackson also warned the students that because of this country’s history they have a responsibility to vote.
“We have struggled for so long with the hypocrisy on paper of being one nation under God… but we couldn’t be one nation half slave and half free,” Jackson said. “We couldn’t be one nation when women did not have the right to vote. We couldn’t be one nation when workers do not have the right of collective bargaining. We could not be one nation when people of a language other than English could not express themselves and be seen as citizens.”
Did it ever occur to Jesse Jackson than the fact that we are one nation under God is a big reason we ended up getting rid of slavery? Oh no, it probably didn’t because people like Jesse Jackson only want to rabble rouse and indoctrinate people and keep them on the 21st century plantation.