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During his father\u2019s\u00a0memorial service on Saturday, Jesse Jackson Jr. offered a sharp rebuke of the tributes given by former Democratic presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, noting that the trio shared one thing in common: they didn\u2019t really know his father.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Yesterday I listened for several hours of three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson,” Jackson Jr. said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The reverend\u2019s son called out the idea that his father\u2019s life wasn\u2019t defined by the \u2018political order,\u2019 but by a commitment to those who were marginalized.<\/p>\n
“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 \u2014 those who are disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected \u2014 demanded not\u00a0Democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice that at no point in time sold us out as a people,” Jackson Jr. continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n
OBAMA, BIDEN, CLINTONS REMEMBER JESSE JACKSON IN CHICAGO MEMORIAL SERVICE<\/strong><\/p>\n Jesse Jackson died at the age of 84 on February 17 in Chicago.<\/p>\n READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/p>\n Following the death of Rev. Jackson, his son held a press conference where he requested politics be kept out of the services, and the focus to be kept on Jackson\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n “Do not bring your politics out of respect to Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the life that he lived, to these ongoing services. Come respectful, and come to say thank you. But these ongoing services are welcome to ALL\u2014Democrat, Republican, liberal, and conservative. Right-wing, left-wing. Because his life is broad enough to cover the full spectrum of what it means to be an American,”\u00a0Jackson Jr. said in February, one day after his father\u2019s death.<\/p>\n Among the notable attendees paying their respects in Chicago for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson \u2014 a longtime civil rights leader, two-time Democratic presidential candidate and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition \u2014 included former Vice President\u00a0Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Rev. Al Sharpton and California Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u00a0<\/p>\n BIDEN SAYS \u2018I\u2019M A H— OF A LOT SMARTER THAN MOST OF YOU\u2019 TO CROWD AT JESSE JACKSON’S FUNERAL<\/strong><\/p>\n Obama, Clinton and Biden each spoke at Jackson\u2019s funeral.\u00a0<\/p>\n Obama\u00a0reportedly took aim at President Donald Trump during his speech,\u00a0saying “every day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions.”<\/p>\n Bill Clinton called Jackson a friend, and recalled his conversation with the reverend during his impeachment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Biden told mourners at Rev. Jesse Jackson\u2019s memorial service Friday that he is “a h— of a lot smarter than most of you,” a pointed remark that stood out during his tribute to the late civil rights leader. Biden made the comment while recounting how he was mocked as a child for his stutter and how speech impediments are often mistaken for a lack of intelligence.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n Overall, the memorial largely focused on Jackson\u2019s legacy as a civil rights leader who helped shape the modern Democratic Party and broaden political participation in the United States.<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/p>\n Fox News\u2019 Patrick McGovern,\u00a0Greg Norman-Diamond and Bradford Betz contributed to this report.<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n Original article source:<\/em> Jesse Jackson Jr. rebukes Obama, Clinton, and Biden for not truly knowing his father during memorial service<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During his father\u2019s\u00a0memorial service on Saturday, Jesse Jackson Jr. offered a sharp rebuke of the tributes given by former Democratic presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XHcdp.jpg\")
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