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Jesse
Jackson Stuff
In a recent visit to Benton Harbor, Jessie
Jackson was invited to the World Headquarters
of Whirlpool. After an in depth tour of the facility,
Jessie noted that all the Washers where WHITE.
He then approached the President of Whirlpool
and asked him why with all the millions of
appliances in a racially divided town would he
allow all the appliances to be white.
With the press at hand ready to pounce, the
president said: "Mr. Jackson don't worry if you
the lift lid of each washer you will find a BLACK
agitator in each one. "
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Jesse &
elementary kids
Jesse Jackson is visiting a
primary school
and he visits one of the classes. They are in the
middle of a discussion related to words and
their meanings.
The teacher asks the Rev. Jackson if he
would like to lead the discussion on the word
"tragedy". So the illustrious leader asks the
class for an example of a "tragedy".
One little boy stands up and offers: "If
my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing
in the field and a runaway tractor comes along
and knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy."
"No," says the Great Jesse Jackson," that
would be an accident."
.
A little girl raises her hand: "If a school
bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff,
killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."
"I'm afraid not," explains the exalted spiritual
leader. "That's what we would call a great loss."
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The room goes silent. No other children
volunteer. Rev. Jackson searches the room.
"Isn't there someone here who can give me an
example of a tragedy?"
Finally at the back of the room a small
boy raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says:
"If a jet carrying the Rev. & Mrs. Jackson
were struck by a missile and blown to smithereens,
that would be a tragedy."
"Fantastic!" exclaims Jackson, "That's right.
And can you tell me why that would be tragedy?"
.
"Well," says the boy, "because it
certainly
wouldn't be a great loss and it probably wouldn't
be an accident either!
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