Wednesday Open Thread: The Passing of Reverend Jesse Jackson
For today's in memorium, we turn to you all, the EB community. With the news yesterday of the passing of Reverend Jesse Jackson, there were several comments about the man's legacy. Some positive. Some negative. Some a mix of both. There is no wrong way to feel whenever someone passes; what helps is that we find a place where we can express our feelings free of judgment. For us millennials, we were too young to have experienced Jackson's two presidential runs. We did, however, hear of his affair in the early 2000s. But we also saw him in tears the night of Barack Obama's first election win. We saw him stand on the side of justice time and time again for the Black community. And we saw him inexplicably endorse Bernie Sanders in 2020. Nobody could ever have filled Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s shoes. Jackson did an awful lot of good during his time here on Earth. His good deeds outweigh the bad. Yet the man clearly had blind spots. His antisemitism chief among them. H...
