Jesse Jackson endorsed Hillary Clinton on Saturday, saying he trusts her to work with groups including women and immigrants, CNN reported.
Jackson gave a speech at the site of a memorial in Chicago recognizing the hundreds of children who have been killed in the city. He cited Clinton’s commitment to working with diverse communities.
“We trust her to work on health care, to fight for the poor … for the willingness to fight for civil rights,” Jackson said, according to CNN.
On matters of human & voting rights,racial&gender equality& affordable healthcare you can trust her. @HillaryClinton pic.twitter.com/s0N7x7TRuf
— Rev Jesse Jackson Sr (@RevJJackson) June 11, 2016
Jackson has a long history with both Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) which he said prevented him from endorsing in the primary race, according to The Hill. He previously endorsed President Obama in 2008 over Clinton.
Jackson recently reached out to Sanders to encourage unity within the party and advised him to “support the winner,” Clinton, CNN reported.
Jesse Jackson is just another establishment politician who wants to protect the status quo and the neoliberal experiment! /s
(I could have gotten more catchphrases in there, but got bored.)
Sure, but he’s no Don King!
And Don King’s no King Don!
It might be worthwhile for younger readers to go back and really look at, and appreciate, the role that Jesse Jackson played in the civil rights effort – in getting a too-rigidly-fixed country to wake up to the changes that were going to take place but still maintaining that that change could come within the system, not by violence. Listen to his speech at the 1984 Democratic convention and try, as best as possible, to hear it as it was received by those who lived in that time, not in our world today. I was a (white) product of the Old South, but my pride - and, frankly, shock – at being able to vote for him in the Dem primary that year equaled, and maybe even surpassed, my pride in voting for Barack Obama 24 years later. I doubt we would have gotten to 2008 without the efforts and achievements of Jackson - he was the brash, challenging young black man who nevertheless did not give into anger. There are many people who still have great respect for what he did and accomplished and who will, rightly, place great importance on his endorsement.
It might also be worthwhile for them to do some homework on HRC and find out she isn’t the evil witch of the east