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More on Jesse Jackson's Schiavo Crusade

Check the link below for the initial article and thread concerning Jackson's comments and his visit to the Florida Schiavo hospice.
Carl Davidson intones that Jackson has been a leading voice opposing homophobia in the African-American community. That was then.

Today, as is also evident in the Schiavo case, Jackson is part and parcel of the rightward movement of the Democratic. In this effort, he and Bill Clinton have taken a leaf out of the DLC playbook.

Like Clinton behind the scenes, Jackson has publicly campaigned AGAINST marriage equality for same-sex couples. Rather than embracing equality for gay Americans, he has ridiculed the gay marriage notion in appearances before African-American congregations.
Jackson has charged that some slave owners (read, white) were gay. So? Another diversion from the equality issue.

But then Jackson also proclaimed that marriage equality is "not a civil right" since gays have not had to endure the same struggle as that of Blacks. So? Jackson plays to Black exclusivity just as some Jews do when appealing to a mythical hierarchy of oppression.

All discriminations based on racism, anti-Semitism and heterosexism are wrong and need to be eradicated. Period.
 
 

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