Farewell Jesse Jr., We Hardly Knew Ye: A Lesson on the Limits of our Black Political Class

With longtime Jackson strategist Frank Watkins, Junior co-authored a valuable and insightful book, Toward a More Perfect Union, in which he proposed constitutional amendments for the rights to vote, to a decent job at a living wage, a clean environment, and more. The other two books which he co-authored with his father were forgettable at best.

If Junior had shown imaginative leadership in Congress, he might have been mayor of Chicago by now. But imagination and leadership seem to have eluded the young prince. Junior mostly kept his head down in Congress, voted with the crowd on Iraq and other mattters, and by 2003 he was shilling for a south side casino and a new airport in his district supposedly as “job creation” measures.

in the Democratic half of which our black political class have made their careers.

 LeAlan Jones has apparently survived a challenge to his status on the ballot as a Green Party candidate. www.blackagendareport.com.

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