Jesse Jackson wasted no time yesterday in using a Martin Luther King, Jr. event to attack the tea party and create racial divide. The event was one of many planned for the days leading up to the official opening of the MLK memorial on the National Mall.
USA Today reported Jackson’s comments:
Jesse Jackson said Thursday that the Tea Party’s tenets are reminiscent of state’s rights philosophies used in decades past to oppose federally mandated integration.
“The Tea Party is not new,” Jackson said at a luncheon honoring civil rights pioneers on Thursday. “It’s just a new name for an old game.”
There are no details as to whether any black tea party members were invited to the MLK pre-memorial launch event.
The media also does not recount how, despite all the divisive talk from Jackson, no one in the tea party has ever threatened to castrate President Obama as Jackson has done.
It’s a shame that this irrelevant race hustler would attempt to hijack the opening of an amazing memorial to perpetuate such needless maliciousness and divide — the exact opposite of Dr. King’s work and legacy.