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WhiskeyGrinder

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6. Jackson Jr. just had some comments at the family's memorial, the day after the larger memorial.
Wed Mar 11, 2026, 06:24 PM
Wednesday
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jesse-jackson-obama-biden-clinton-funeral-b2934547.html

The late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.’s son took a swipe at three former U.S. presidents after Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden paid tribute at his father’s memorial service.

Jesse Jackson Jr., in his own eulogy at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago on Saturday, argued that the former leaders did not truly know his father.

“Yesterday, I listened for several hours of three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson,” Jackson Jr. said.

“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.”

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