Jesse Jackson Junior's Eulogy to Jesse Jackson

Introduction to Jesse JAckson Juniors Eulogy

Yesterday I listened for several hours of three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson,... He maintained a tense relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were White or Black, but the demands of our message, the demands of speaking for the least of these — those who are disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected — demanded not Democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice that at no point in time sold us out as a people.”

 

MY THOUGHTS

Who is Jesse Jackson ?

In cheap hindsight, Jesse Jackson is one of the Black Leaders, another is Shirley Chisholm ,  whose rise was in the last decade of the Jim Crow era, 1865 to 1980[eighteen sixty five to nineteen eighty , the period after the enslavement era from 1492 fourteen ninety two to 1865 eighteen sixty five], in the 1970s, nineteen seventies. 

What happened in the the 1970s? 

China + Japan , two white asian countries, each began a fiscal push, that in twenty twenty six have become pillars of modern fiscal activity, deleting the edge in engineering the usa had from the end of commonly called world war two. 

the USA installed the lickspittle puppet, the Shah of Iran in the nineteen fifties because the elected prime minister of iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, wasn't a lickspittle and was stopping the uneven oil business. I restate, Mosaddegh wanted to sell Iranian oil to iran's favor at market value, both things, and that is what led to United States of America plus the United Kingdom of England plus Israel overthrowing the government of iran and installing the shah as a monarchy. yes, the usa plus uk plus israel installed a monarchy to get what they each wanted financially. But that action led to the Muslim Revolution of Iran overthrowing the shah in the 1970s and publicly stating two countries who had a hand in overthrowing the elected government of Mosaddegh, , USA+Israel are correctly enemies of Iran. 

The inevitable failure of the civil rights laws in the private financial sector showed their reality. As Black populaces in white cities had a growing class of workers for city governments, aided with publicly funded schools, but the white flight was about to allow white cities to undercut staffing and undercut funding which ultimately derailed many black populaces in cities. 

What was Jesse Jackson's plan?

Jesse Jackson realized the heritage of unpaid unelected advocacy in the Black descended of enslaved populace, whose members were continually murdered through the whole jim crow period needed to survive in the future; said heritage was about advocacy, working for something, that returns nothing to oneself. MEdgar evers/Fanni lou hamer/James Baldwin/Malcolm/ MLK jr/ Billie Holiday/ Mary Lou Williams all died through murder or poor condition of life, financially broke. None of them had money. They all had funerals paid for by others, had their childrens opportunities financed by others. Jesse Jackson's idea was, lets place Fannie Lou Hamer + Malcolm in the elected official class. Why? I argue Jesse Jackson saw with Jim Crow ending, the USA is going into a phase where individuals from many communities in the usa will be able to financially achieve great heights, unbounded, but they will be communally abvocates. Not advocates, those who work toward, but abvocates, those who work against. So, while financially a Black one percent will grow and those not of white european descent in a rainbow coalition, which came from Fred Hampton in chicago, will achieve financial wealth, the black fiscal poor as part of the greater fiscal poor of the united states of america will need an elected class who are not just filled with victors who own spoils abvocating to the districts that elected them, but communal advocates who have the same energy plus vibe that Jesse Jackson saw in the jim crow era before it was murdered by non blacks aside their black agents. 

Did Jesse Jackson succeed? 

No, To the victor goes the spoils is the oldest heritage for elected officials in the united states of america. It is a strong heritage because in a land where government post tend to not be inherited, the only fiscal profit in government is in extracting what you can in the short term. Supporting the short term fiscal value of elected positions in government is the rarity of advocates of highest quality that surrounded Jesse Jackson in the nineteen sixties. Being an abvocate , working against, to the people is easy , natural in the united states of america. Being an advocate to the people , and better yet one who is making no fiscal revenue, is a rare way of life in the usa. 

 

Jesse Jackson tried to create a culture of advocacy for all people within the elected class of government officials in the united states of america, who could make money and take money while being effective legislators or executives who forced profit to be made on mountains of unprofitable caring to prevent crimes in the future or the potency of crimes in any past. 

 

TRANSCRIPT

0:00 Yesterday 0:07 I listened 0:10 for several hours of three 0:14 [clears throat] 0:15 United States presidents 0:18 who do not know Jesse Jackson. 0:26 He maintained a tense relationship 0:30 with the political order. Not because 0:34 the presidents were white or black, 0:38 but the demands of our message. 0:40 Yes. 0:41 The demands of speaking for the least of 0:43 these, those who were disinherited, the 0:45 damned, the dispossessed, the 0:48 disrespected. 0:50 Yes, sir. 0:51 demanded not Democratic or Republican 0:54 solutions, but demanded 0:57 a consistent 1:00 prophetic 1:02 voice 1:03 that at no point in time ever sold us 1:06 out as a people. 1:10 And it speaks volumes about who the 1:13 Reverend Jesse Jackson 1:16 was. Our message has already been 1:20 delivered today. I can see it all over 1:23 my mother's face. 1:26 Rise, Jesse, rise. Give Jonathan Jackson 1:30 another great round of applause for 1:33 delivering our family message to the 1:37 world. 1:42 Let's hear it for the congressman. 1:50 [applause] 1:52 There'll be no different message that 1:55 leaves this service than the one that 1:56 Jonathan Jackson has blessed us with. 2:02 I want to thank my sister Ashley and on 2:05 behalf of all of our siblings, 2:08 there is something about the blood of 2:11 service that Jesse Jackson has given to 2:15 all of us. 2:17 Ashley is an extraordinary individual, a 2:21 very, very talented young lady, and I am 2:24 so grateful. We're all so grateful to 2:27 call her our sister. Thank you, Ashley. 2:32 [applause] 2:37 [applause] 2:41 a gift to us from our father. 2:48 Amen. 2:50 to my sister Santita 2:53 whose talents are so extraordinary that 2:57 I've always wondered why they're so 2:59 contained. 3:02 We're so grateful for her scholarship, 3:06 her input, her thinking, 3:09 her being our oldest 3:11 sibling. 3:14 She doesn't like oldest. She likes 3:16 eldest sibling. 3:20 We want to thank Cintita in a very 3:21 special way for her leadership. Give 3:24 Centa a great round of applause. 3:25 [applause] 3:27 Let's hear it for Centa. 3:33 [applause] 3:38 And if we can listen once again to four 3:40 presidents yesterday, three of whom 3:43 happened to be US presidents 3:46 who did not know my father, we can 3:48 certainly listen to Jqualine Jackson. 3:52 We can listen to Jqualine Jackson who 3:54 cared for my father. Give her the round 3:57 of applause that she deserves. 4:03 [applause] 4:13 And last but not least, 4:18 for 64 years before we heard of 4:22 progressive nuclear pausy or Parkinson's 4:25 disease, 4:28 my father at North Carolina ENTT said 4:30 that he was standing 4:32 at the cafeteria when he saw a young 4:34 fresh woman 4:37 walking across 4:39 the campus. 4:41 That's right. 4:44 And mommy, at least as the story was 4:46 conveyed to me, he said something to the 4:48 effect that you're going to be my wife 4:51 one day. 4:54 And mama said to him, "You going to have 4:56 to work hard to make that the case, my 4:58 brother. 5:04 for 64 years with a particular emphasis 5:07 since Reverend's diagnosis 5:10 of initially Parkinson's disease but a 5:13 further diagnosis that revealed 5:16 pseudonuclear Pauly 5:19 whether the weather was rain or whether 5:21 the weather was cold 5:23 whether things were going well or things 5:25 were not going well. 5:28 the mountain tops that marriages reach 5:30 as well as the valley that they reach. 5:32 Jqualine Jackson has been the enduring 5:35 force in the ministry of the Reverend 5:38 Jesse Jackson and she lent him to the 5:43 world. Give Mrs. Jackson the honor that 5:47 she deserves. 5:51 [applause] 5:55 [applause] 6:00 I want to remind everybody 6:03 Yes. 6:07 that we are burying our father today. 6:17 I was so grateful that he gave me his 6:18 name. 6:22 When he first gave it to me, it was a 6:23 good name, 6:26 Jesse Jackson. 6:28 Born March 11th, just a few short days 6:31 from now. 6:34 He had traveled from Chicago Theological 6:36 Seminary to Selma, Alabama. 6:41 He sent my mother to Greenville, South 6:43 Carolina. 6:49 because he wanted his firstborn son to 6:51 be born where he was born. 6:56 When I was born, the Selma to Montgomery 6:58 March was entering a new phase. And mama 7:02 called Selma to find out what 7:06 or to share with my father that his 7:07 firstborn son had been born. And 7:11 he was so overwhelmed by the moment that 7:13 he almost named me Selma. 7:21 But thank God for mama's better 7:23 judgment. 7:29 And my father had a lot of jokes. 7:32 Yes, sir. 7:33 My father was a funny man. 7:36 Those of you who knew my father knew 7:38 that he was an enjoyable man. Whatever 7:42 the media has to say about him, it has 7:45 nothing to do with what each and every 7:48 one of us knows about who Jesse Jackson 7:52 was and is in our thinking. 8:06 being Jesse is not easy. 8:09 And so, Dad and I had worked out some 8:12 understanding of why he would do this 8:14 and why I would do that. And a symbiosis 8:17 occurred in our personality because what 8:20 he did affected me one way and what I 8:23 did affected him the other way. But such 8:26 was the name Jesse Jackson. 8:30 And I remember when I was in prison. 8:40 [applause] 8:43 And I would think about the man 8:46 who brought Robert Goodman home. 8:48 Yes, sir. 8:50 Yes, sir. 8:51 Who called the Ayatollah in Iran and 8:55 asked him to release the Americans. And 8:58 when he wouldn't, he said, "At least 9:00 release the black ones because America, 9:03 don't use them as a human shield. 9:05 America don't care." 9:09 And Ayatollah heard Reverend Jackson's 9:12 voice and released the black prisoners. 9:20 [applause] 9:21 Jonathan and I were in Cuba when dad 9:23 brought, I believe, the Mario prisoners 9:26 home. 9:28 I think Yousef and Jonathan were in Iraq 9:32 when they met with Saddam Hussein 9:35 [snorts] and brought a 747 9:38 of filled with human shields home. 9:44 [applause] 9:49 And I remember mama when daddy would 9:51 come visit me in prison 9:53 and I would think about 9:56 all of the people my daddy could save. 10:07 He came to visit me one day and I said, 10:08 "Daddy, 10:11 do you think you can get me out of 10:12 here?" 10:18 [applause] 10:23 [applause] 10:25 He said, "I'm trying, son, 10:28 but don't give up." Yes, sir. 10:31 Hold your head high. 10:33 Stick your chest out. 10:35 You can make it. 10:38 And so, yesterday, I began a little 10:41 statement, and this ain't going to last 10:43 but about four more minutes cuz I 10:46 haven't had a chance to develop it. 10:48 [snorts] 10:50 Howard Thurman 10:54 because the message has already been 10:57 delivered. Rise, Jesse, rise. I'm 11:00 specifically hanging around Howard 11:03 Thurman yesterday because I don't want 11:06 the media to step on rise, Jesse, rise 11:10 in tomorrow's story. 11:14 It's a calculation. 11:16 Yes, sir. We Jackson have to think about 11:19 what we say so we don't have too many 11:22 messages emanating from the same 11:25 household. We think about it. 11:32 Howard Thurman his family grew up as a 11:34 sharecropping family and he had 11:36 experienced some of the horrific 11:38 treatment of African-Americans in the 11:40 South, not unlike my father. and his 11:43 family decided they didn't want young 11:45 Howard to be a sharecropper. So, they 11:47 put together all of their pennies and 11:50 quarters and nickels, and they came up 11:53 with just enough money to make sure 11:55 Howard Thurman could afford a ticket to 11:58 go to college. 12:03 And in the book, which Bill Clinton 12:05 referenced yesterday with Head and 12:07 Heart, he dedicates the book 12:11 to this story. 12:14 When he went to get his ticket, the 12:17 broken pieces of his life were in a 12:20 trunk that his family had given to him 12:23 with no handles. And he had tied the 12:25 trunk up with ropes. 12:28 Yes, sir. 12:29 Yes, sir. And the conductor said, "You 12:32 can get on the train, but your baggage 12:33 can't." 12:35 He said, "In that trunk was all of the 12:37 broken pieces of his life, his pictures, 12:40 his his clothes, all of his memories, 12:43 and 12:46 he wasn't leaving his broken pieces 12:49 behind." 12:52 So he went over in the corner of the 12:54 train station and he began crying 12:58 because his dreams and his hopes had 13:01 been thwarted about whether or not he 13:04 could go to college. 13:07 And crying and tears and mucus all lay 13:11 in a pile when he wiped his eyes and he 13:12 looked up mama and he saw a pair of old 13:16 rustic boots. 13:20 He continued to look up and he saw a man 13:23 in some overalls and he saw an old black 13:26 man wearing a straw hat and he said, 13:28 "Boy, 13:30 what you crying for?" And Howard said, 13:33 "Because I can't take my luggage with me 13:38 on the train. I've decided not to go to 13:41 college." And the old man reached in his 13:44 pocket and he grabbed a little leather 13:45 sack and pulled out a few coins and 13:48 bought a ticket for Howard Thurman's 13:51 luggage. 13:54 And Howard Thurman says he never got the 13:57 man's name. 14:00 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And all he remembers 14:04 was his train was going in one direction 14:07 and he saw the old man walking down the 14:10 train tracks until he faded away. 14:14 He dedicates his autobiography 14:18 to the stranger 14:23 who restored his hope. 14:26 Yes, sir. 14:27 And sent him to college. Thank you, 14:30 Jesus. 14:31 I just want two more minutes to tell you 14:34 about who my daddy was. 14:38 [applause] 14:39 You see, when I was in prison, 14:41 Yes, sir. 14:42 I had to ask my daddy if he was 14:44 disappointed in me. 14:45 Yes, sir. Come on. Come on. 14:48 [snorts] 14:49 I announced this little old campaign for 14:51 Congress on his birthday, October 8th, 14:56 2025, because I wanted to remember his 14:59 birthday as long as I live. 15:02 Yes, sir. 15:05 Help. 15:06 You see, when I was in the hole 15:10 and I looked up and saw the ceiling, 15:14 I thought about the stranger. 15:19 And I said to myself, "My dad is the 15:23 stranger." 15:26 You see, he's the man who can save 15:28 people from prison and save people and 15:31 bring them from foreign leadership. He's 15:33 the man who can go around the world and 15:36 change it for everybody. 15:39 He's the man who spoke in the high 15:41 schools and told young people to stop 15:44 complaining about what they don't have, 15:46 to use what they got. 15:48 Yes, sir. Yes, sir. 15:51 He's the one who told them down with 15:53 dope and and up with hope. 15:56 He's the one who preached your funerals 15:59 for your families and married your loved 16:02 ones and helped bring them forward in 16:05 happily married matrimony. 16:08 He's the one we turn to at our lowest 16:12 hours. 16:13 And so, [gasps] not only in the life of 16:17 his family was he hope, 16:20 but he was a stranger Yes, sir. for 16:24 millions of people who knew not his 16:27 name. 16:28 You see, [cheering] 16:31 imminent Howard Thurman theologian said 16:34 that to Howard Thurman, the stranger was 16:38 the embodiment of God. 16:42 So when the stranger shows up in our 16:45 space, 16:46 I don't care if it's your daddy. I don't 16:49 care if it's your mama. I don't care if 16:51 it's someone that you don't get along 16:53 with. God is trying to tell you 16:55 something, judge. 16:57 Yes, sir. [applause] 17:00 Yes, sir. 17:01 I'm done. 17:03 [applause] 17:04 God help you. 17:05 When Jonathan delivered that message 17:06 today, 17:08 you 17:09 on behalf of this family and on behalf 17:11 of a people, 17:12 Yes, sir. 17:14 He covered every aspect that I know of 17:19 my father's life. 17:20 Yes, sir. 17:21 I am so grateful to each of the 17:23 iterations of Jesse Jackson that are 17:26 represented here today 17:28 because we've seen and you you you and 17:31 you have lifted this family and allowed 17:34 us the great privilege 17:37 Yes, sir. 17:39 [cheering] 17:39 of representing you 17:42 in some mighty amazing places. And so, 17:46 Santita, to God be the glory. [cheering] 17:50 For all of the wonderful things that he 17:54 has done. 17:56 I am grateful to all of you on behalf of 17:59 our family. Rise, Jesse. Rise.

 

 

COMMENTARIES 

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@aka Contrarian well,I think what jesse jackson jr said was truth, clinton/obama/biden were each considered good guys, the southern white sax player, the mulatto with a black wife, the kindly old white guy, but each weren't the kind of elected advocate that Jesse Jackson  senior hoped to brew as a common occurrence in the usa. I still feel ,with no proof, that what Jesse Jackson wanted, his purpose, was to get people with the quality of leadership of advocates, unpaid or unelected while totally committed, like fannie lou hamer or malcolm x to be elected officials, to improve the quality of elected officials, in the usa. Instead, the overall industry of government led to a bunch of pantomime black or non black elected officials who are all salespeople, who do nothing for blacks or non blacks while claiming their are acting in all humanities betterment.  This is why Shirley Chisholm left government. She was an advocate who became an elected official, but she was surrounded by black plus non black salespeople. And three of said salespeople spoke during jesse jackson's funeral with the same quality inherent in insult that brooke shileds plus magic johnson spoke at michael jackson's funeral.  

 

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@aka Contrarian 

  On 3/11/2026 at 6:04 PM, aka Contrarian said:

Well, if you dont want the 3 Presidents to talk politics at the funeral of a political figure, then don't invite them, just to show how important the deceased was. And Al Sharpton certainly didn't mince any words about what's happening in the country in his remarks. 

If you want a dignified funeral, don't invite a bunch of dignitaries to speak, and hold the services at a huge hall to accommodate  all the public mourners you opened the doors to.

You're just asking for confusion and resentment and that's what the Jackson family got.

You can't have it both ways.

I am with you 100% Do I think jesse jackson spoke false ? no BUT I concur to your point that if you want no commercialization then make the funeral private and if you want a more public aspect, for jesse jackson was famous, known, then you need to have greater control over what happens plus over how what happens in the schedule. I concur to you. If you open the possibility for behavior you don't want at an event you control, then when the behavior you don't want happens you are partially and arguably mostly to blame. If Jesse jackson junior would had began mentioning where the jackson clan, or whomever was in control went wrong, that would had made his speech not only truthful but even.

 

@Pioneer1 

  1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

This shit has got to stop.

Perhaps there should be a Black Law: If you're already light skinned, you shouldn't be allowed to dye your hair blonde.

Maybe we should have a limit to how many "white" features a Black person is allowed to have before they are no longer considered Black....lol.

 i have to ask a simple question. who will enforce the black laws? you?:) you talk of law enforcement with white laws so i assume someone will enforce the black laws:)

 

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@Pioneer1

  2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

I guess if we could figure out who or what is influencing so many Black women to dye their hair blonde, we can figure out who or what can get them to stop.

what if the influencer is the freedom of a woman to do whatever she wants with out having to worry about any penalty ? who is going to deny them their freedom to do what they want? what can deny them the freedom to do what they want?

 

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@Pioneer1 

  7 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

If the "freedom of a woman to do whatever she wants" was the influencer....where are the AfroAmerican women with naturally light hair dying it black or dark brown?

When was the last time you saw a Black entertainer with naturally lighter hair dying it black?

It's not about freedom, it's about them being conditioned to believe that blonde hair, light skin, and light eyes somehow makes them look better.

I don't think they should be physically or even legally prevented from doing so, but I do think that we as AfroAmericans who ARE proud to be Black...should have a consistent campaign of self-love and promotion of African features like dark skin and dark hair and promote this especially to our children to COUNTER the effects from centuries of racist anti-Black brainwashing that our community has endured.

Use the movies, television shows, and advertisements to promote dark skin and dark hair....especially to our children.
Make them desire THOSE features, instead of the opposite.

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In my experience most Black women don't have naturally light hair. so they would never need to dye it a dark color. In contrast i find many white women tend to have natural light hair and they dye it dark colors. 

 

I can't recall a Black Entertainer with naturally lighter hair. Black to dark Brown is the usual colors for Black entertainers. 

 

You are not wrong that conditioning exist, this is undeniably true.

 

BUT, you hint at a greater challenge. I live in NYC , has more black women than any other city in the united states of america. If someone asks me what hairstyle do most black women have. I argue, a majority of black women in NYC today of younger generations have natural styles. And black women in nYC of older generations have a fifty /fifty natural to unnatural. Now, You mention a consistent campaign but when does this end? are you speaking of an eternal campaign? why do I ask? don't forget you live in the usa. There isn't a populace/peoples/group in the usa today that doesn't have many individuals in it who don't adhere to some code of appearance or conduct. Many people whose parents: don't speak english , don't speak spanish; dance the rumba; don't dance forms from latin america; are of asian descent, have been adopted by white europeans and barely know any asians. ... my point. 

 

If you are looking for 100% like another member of aalbc, or maybe yourself when it comes to black crime, then you can forget it in the united states of america. In my experience most black people desire being of some black tribe, in appearance, heritage, culture. But, not 100% and in my view, what your complaining about is the lack of 100% which I oppose. 

 

Pioneer you will always see black people who are white-philes in the usa, ALWAYS. But Black people have always been majority in love with being Black. I think black people like you love to cry emergency with the mere existence of black people who act as you feel they should not, even though said black folk have always been a minority in the black populace.