# Rev. Jesse Jackson, you're wrong (again)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rev-jesse-jackson-youre-wrong-again/155920>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 18, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rev-jesse-jackson-youre-wrong-again/155920 "2003-02-18T17:31:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rev-jesse-jackson-youre-wrong-again/155920/21 "2003-02-20T19:42:14Z")

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So let me get this straight.

There was a conspiracy _against_ black business owners by the authorities which prevented the authorities from closing said black business owners business?

So had their been no conspiracy, then the athorties would have come in and closed down the nightclub?

_POP!_

(Particlewill’s brain just exploded.)

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**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rev-jesse-jackson-youre-wrong-again/155920/22 "2003-02-20T20:55:36Z")

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The “Rainbow Coalition” Hmph.

Never saw a black rainbow.

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**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rev-jesse-jackson-youre-wrong-again/155920/23 "2003-02-20T21:40:42Z")

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Is no one going to argue in Reverend Jackson’s favor? It’s no fun when everyone agrees.

(D\_Odds goes and sulks in a corner)

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**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rev-jesse-jackson-youre-wrong-again/155920/24 "2003-02-20T22:23:15Z")

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Well it’s hard to imagine that in the fair city of chicago there wasn’t somebody with a badge or honorific with his hand in the pocket of the club owners.

In that narrow way, certain representatives of the city may be held partially responsible.

I can’t wrap my brain around what Jackson is saying, but I seem to recognize it as working both sides of a tragedy for self-aggrandizement and profit.

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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rev-jesse-jackson-youre-wrong-again/155920/25 "2003-02-21T03:34:38Z")

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[http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pol20.html:](http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pol20.html:)

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> Ald. Madeline Haithcock (2nd) branded the Rev. Jesse Jackson a hypocrite on Wednesday for going to bat for E2 nightclub owner Dwain Kyles behind the scenes, then rushing to console victims’ families when tragedy struck…
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> “That’s Jesse. It doesn’t surprise me what he does. He does that all over the world. He’s with the victims one minute holding prayer vigils … and with his friends the next. That’s him. That’s the role he plays. He likes to get in the papers…”…
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> Jackson said he never intervened on the more critical issues of licensing and code enforcement, even though Kyles went on the radio last year and complained that the city was attempting to shut him down.

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