Local Media Celebrating Jesse Jackson’s Greensboro Ties

I have seen at least three local media organizations today running articles about the death of Jesse Jackson. Each breathlessly reminded readers that he was a NC A&T graduate.

I don’t think this is anything to celebrate. Jackson’s life was thoroughly dishonorable.

Consider the following:

1. He engaged in a four-year extramarital affair. He cheated on his wife for years.
2. He was a socialist.
3. Racial identity politics was his schtick.
4. His organization would shake down corporations for money with the not-so-implicit threat they would be stigmatized prominently if they failed to comply.
5. He was initially pro-life, but then flip-flopped and became pro-abortion.

The local media organizations will not tell the full story. They are too busy celebrating the fact that he went to A&T; but ignore the fact that he was a fake “reverend” who did terrible things.