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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Prayer with Jesse.....

Prayer With Jesse
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J. Lewis

ESPN; Page 2 Columnist Scoop Jackson writes that Jesse Jackson brought closure to the Ron Artest - Ben Wallace fiasco, that turned into the NBA's biggest bleach spot. A near riot in Detroit (U.S. - 2nd most violent city) in which Artest went into the stands after a fan, who he thought threw a cup of beer on him, while he laid on the scorer's table, after being two hand clutched by Wallace. For his action, Artest was suspended for the whole year, while Wallace received a nice suspension for his actions. All in all, a few players on the Indiana Pacers had charges brought against them, along with the fan who actually threw lighter fluid on a violatile Artest. And now, after two years, Jesse Jackson has decided to bring closure to Artest and Wallace. And now we have Scoop Jackson applauding Jesse's intervention as if Jesse brought world peace.

"No cameras were present." Just how did Jesse Jackson get over that? He must've went through convulsions and heavy sweating with the absence of the one thing that is always near, like his wallet. I imagine Jesse would have stopped the prayer and made someone go get a disposable camera for his Nobel Peace Prize action. I mean a fight between two NBA players, in which one player grabbed another by the throat and pushed him must have frightened the His shakedowness. Maybe Wallace's hand position reminded Jesse how he shakes down businesses for the "good" of his relative errr!!!! people.

Jesse is 65...Isn't that retirement age? He's at the point where he can collect his retirement from his many mutual funds or investments in companies he suggested we boycott for not helping out his relative err!!! people. Life must be good, when you don't have to depend on social security for chump change or if you're like the people Jesse was supposed to be the leader of....Not live long enough to collect said chump change, because Jesse felt his people, not relatives, didn' t deserve to have social security reform, by private accounts...

But hey at least Ben Wallace and Ron Artest shook hands and prayed...Nevermind that in cities like Detroit, a young black man is taking the life of another young black man. And there's no Jesse to pray for them.

Scoop Jackson Article:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=jackson/061107