Jesse Jackson Has repeatedly threatened businesses with boycotts, negative publicity, and (implicitly) outright violence if they refused to enrich him or his organizations Stated that Yasser Arafat’s “commitment to justice is an absolute one” Described Cuban dictator Fidel Castro as “the most honest, courageous politician I have ever met” Also lauded Castro henchman Che Guevara Referred to Jews as “Hymies,” and to New York City as “Hymietown,” in what he thought was a private conversation in 1984 According to the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, communists were deeply involved with Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign. Enthusiastic backer of the community organization ACORN Called Ward Connerly, a black California Board of Regents member who once led the fight to end affirmative action in California’s public sector, a “house slave” and a “puppet of the white man” Condemned Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s vote to place limits on affirmative action programs, characterizing Thomas as an “enem[y] of civil rights” and likening his black judicial robes to the white sheets of Klansmen According to James Mtume, co-host of the Open Line Show on New York City radio, Jackson in 2008 privately denounced Barack Obama as a “no-good half-breed ni**er.” Supported the anti-capitalist Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 “Racism is a deeply ingrained congenital deformity in the U.S. It is at the root of our society, and it is the rot of our national character.” Emmanuel Macron calls Jesse Jackson ‘a brother to us’ as he awards him France’s Legion of Honor medal https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/jesse-jackson