The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a famed civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, and his wife, Jacqueline, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday.
Jesse Jackson, 79, is vaccinated against the virus and received his first dose in January during a publicized event as he urged others to receive the inoculation as soon as possible. He and his wife, 77, are being treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
�Doctors are currently monitoring the condition of both,� according to the statement from Jesse Jackson�s nonprofit, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
�There are no further updates at this time,� the statement said. �We will provide updates as they become available.�
A prot�g� of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jesse Jackson was key in guiding the modern civil rights movement on numerous issues, including voting rights.
Despite having been diagnosed for Parkinson�s disease, Jackson has remained active, and has advocated for COVID-19 vaccines for Black people, who lag behind white people in the United States� vaccination drive. Earlier this month, he was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol during a demonstration calling for Congress to end the filibuster in order to support voting rights.
(AP)
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Doesn’t anyone remember when this “rev” referred to NYC as “Hymietown” (ie: Jewtown)?
Name for Tehillim?
I thinks they got the Hymie Varient……….
You don’t need a name to say Tehilim 58 for his speedy demise.
I never understood what was wrong with calling NYC “Jewtown”. Why did all these leftist Jews who cheered all of Jackson’s truly offensive statements and actions suddenly get their knickers in a twist simply because he referred to the obvious fact that NYC has a lot of Jews. Jackson was already a blackmailer, a race hustler, a person who made his living by creating hatred and division, and a crony of the most evil dictators and tyrants, but none of that fazed them until he said something innocuous like that.
My favorite line about Jackson was said by a Cuban dissident whom he persuaded Castro to release from prison and allow to come to America. This was when he was running for president, and went on what he called a “Moral Offensive”, getting his monstrous pals to release American prisoners so he could look like a hero. The Cuban said something like, “I’m grateful to Mr Jackson for getting me out of there, but I have to say that anyone who launches a ‘moral offensive’ in alliance with Castro is morally offensive”.
May he have a misa meshuna.