Hey, times are tough. You gotta pick up odd jobs every now and then.
The Bingo protesters sang “We Shall Overcome” as they marched to the state capitol.
Jesse Jackson (center) marches up Dexter Ave. toward the capitol. The Rev. Jesse Jackson marched with bingo supporters to the State Capitol steps in Montgomery Alabama Saturday March 6, 2010 to supports their efforts to get bingo establishments legal and open. (The Birmingham News / Joe Songer)
Here’s the video:
Jesse Jackson led a march of 200 protesters singing “We Shall Overcome” as they protested for Bingo rights in Alabama.
AL.com reported, via Free Republic.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson led a march of about 200 people down Dexter Avenue to the Alabama Capitol to rally supporting bingo jobs in the state.
Jackson said the bingo debate ongoing in Alabama is a voting rights issue and a matter of economic justice. Counties voted for bingo, Jackson said, and the vote should be respected.
“We demand jobs and justice and voting rights,” Jackson said on the steps of the Alabama Capitol.
Jackson said before the march that when a person loses a job, it doesn’t just hurt that person’s household.
“It’s like an economic earthquake that affects a lot of people from the grocery store to the cleaners to the car shop,” Jackson said.
Rally leaders evoked Civil Rights era imagery during the march.Marchers sang, “We shall overcome” and the demonstration paused to pray in front of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, the church once led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
March 8th, 2010 | 9:05 am | #1
Bingo!? We Shall Overcome..for Bingo?
He’s making a mockery of the Civil Rights movement.
March 8th, 2010 | 9:18 am | #2
Jesse Jackson is WMD stupid!
March 8th, 2010 | 9:21 am | #3
This may seem a superficial or trifling issue, but you would be surprised at how much cash bingo produces. My parish ran games for decades. It also provides a nice opportunity for socializing to a part of our community. When the state bans this they are usually shoving aside decent folks trying to have a little fun in order to make a grab at the proceeds either by lottery or state run casinos.
If I may offer the Rev a bit of advice from the Alinsky playbook, I’d add the “Bingo was his Namo” song to the repertoire.
March 8th, 2010 | 9:22 am | #4
Bingo jobs? What, no union?
Rosemary is correct! It is a mockery of the Civil Rights movement.
March 8th, 2010 | 9:23 am | #5
What a hound.
March 8th, 2010 | 9:26 am | #6
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March 8th, 2010 | 9:27 am | #7
What a complete and total waste of time, oxygen, and internet space. This clod has proven the phrase “jump the shark”. He obviously did that a very, very long time ago if this is what his “PUSH” coalition is pulled out of mothballs to organize and lead.
I wonder what the next “big” event will be for his flock of bloated sheeple?
Maybe he will organize a right for vending machines that serve preheated cans of bacon drippings to be installed in grade schools. Then, one of his sons could get the distribution rights through all his steamrolling local leaders and banks.
Then after that, he will be a guest star on “Fantasy Island, Redux”.
March 8th, 2010 | 9:39 am | #8
Ah, what sweet, sweet schadenfreude to stir into my coffee this morning. Here the poverty pimp is reduced to lobbying for bingo rights.
He coulda’ been somebody, he coulda’ been a contenda’. All he needed was a break and some character, and integrity, and a sense of honesty and… well you get the point.
(“I-2 now! I-2 now!” hahahahaha…)
March 8th, 2010 | 9:59 am | #9
He coulda’ been somebody, he coulda’ been a contenda’. All he needed was a break and some character, and integrity, and a sense of honesty and… well you get the point.
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All he needed was a sponsor. Barack Obama possesses none of the above attributes but look where he is today, because he is the anointed one of the MSM and liberal Democrats.
March 8th, 2010 | 10:02 am | #10
My, how the mighty have fallen.
March 8th, 2010 | 10:09 am | #11
Those who fought and took beatings for the right to vote or the right to eat a lunch counter in Alabama should be ashamed of this clown, reduced to protesting for the Right to Play Bingo.
March 8th, 2010 | 10:24 am | #12
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March 8th, 2010 | 10:34 am | #13
Ummmm….how is this a race issue? Don’t people of all races play BINGO?…weird
March 8th, 2010 | 10:39 am | #14
Wow. Look at all the black faces. No mistaking this for a tea party.
March 8th, 2010 | 10:43 am | #15
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March 8th, 2010 | 10:44 am | #16
Give me bingo, or give me death.
March 8th, 2010 | 10:47 am | #17
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
And play high-stakes bingo.
March 8th, 2010 | 11:06 am | #18
….JJ’s Marchin’ for Bingo’s just the opening act in lowering standards in preparation for the main event: State Education Comrade Arnie Duncan’s traveling ‘We All Win’ Show ..he’s speaking in Alabama today, outlining how the State will proceed in leveling our school system for the collective good:
(h/t) riehl world view
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2010/03/obama-duncan-suddenly-discover-civil-rights-law.html
March 8th, 2010 | 11:31 am | #19
There is no fool like an old fool.
March 8th, 2010 | 12:01 pm | #20
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March 8th, 2010 | 12:32 pm | #21
Yawn!!!!!!
There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name oh.
B I N G O, B I N G O, and Bingo was his name oh.
Shakedowner Jesse flexing his communist muscle.
Read an article where gambling addiction was highest amoung black senior citizens.
March 8th, 2010 | 12:37 pm | #22
Just so ya’ll know what’s really going on here. This “bingo” law upheaval is really about electronic “bingo” (read “slot”) machines.
It’s not about church/hall caller, balls and cards “bingo”.
March 8th, 2010 | 12:43 pm | #23
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March 8th, 2010 | 12:44 pm | #24
An insult to the civil rights movement? The civil rights movement is/was an insult to all Americans. Now EVERYTHING is a picket, a movement or a protest. Go get a job so you will have less time on your hands to march.
March 8th, 2010 | 12:46 pm | #25
Jesse? I’m surprised. Either that or there’s one heck of a lot of money involved. But if money is involved…..it follows that Jesse would be there.
March 8th, 2010 | 1:02 pm | #26
Wonder what he was paid? Is he that hard up for some media coverage?
Yeah, as others have noted… “Money, money, money… Muh-Nee!”
March 8th, 2010 | 1:07 pm | #27
Shouldn’t they have sung “B-I-N-G-O?”
March 8th, 2010 | 1:15 pm | #28
Actually, this is not about bingo–as in a bunch of geriatrics sitting around a church social hall with cards and markers. In Alabama, “bingo” is a code word for slot machines. Charity bingo is technically allowed by the State constitution, but “bingo” operators, with the help of out of state gambling interests and a compliant Atty. Genl., have built “bingo halls” that are actually casinos with row upon row of slot machines. The legislation the Alabama gambling cartel (and now Jesse Jackson) are pushing for would essentially give the cartel an oligopoly on existing gambling operations and prevent market entry to anyone else. The governor is pushing back hard against the cartel and (fellow GOPer) the Atty Genl. on this. It is getting very ugly, to say the least.
March 8th, 2010 | 1:20 pm | #29
jkjhjkjh
March 8th, 2010 | 1:21 pm | #30
It’s actually slot machines, not bingo
March 8th, 2010 | 1:36 pm | #31
He has fallen a long way since he wanted to cut off you know what of Obama’s. I am afraid it has happened to him via the Chicago gang.
March 8th, 2010 | 1:37 pm | #32
race pimper
March 8th, 2010 | 1:51 pm | #33
“What a Maroon!”
March 8th, 2010 | 2:02 pm | #34
it’s hard out there for a race baiting pimp in a post racial country…
At least he got these people out for a little exercise. It looks like they could use it.
we shall overcome? hey, march for the right to Bingo, whatever, but turning it into some civil rights thing is such a mockery.
March 8th, 2010 | 2:08 pm | #35
You can see the tiny crowd walking behind him in the picture. These are the same people when an anti-gambling rally was held a week ago that shouted down the governor and other speakers.
This entire episode demostrates the corrupting influence of gambling on the political process.
March 8th, 2010 | 2:23 pm | #36
Jesse will be leading a protest against the Tooth Fairy next week for paying more for Caucasian teeth….
“We shall overbite…..”
March 8th, 2010 | 2:26 pm | #37
Follow the money…Oops! there’s Jesse.
March 8th, 2010 | 2:27 pm | #38
How come Jesse Jackson isn’t marching and giving assistance to his love child?
He has become a farce!
We should march on the Duke Non-Rape fraud to protest phony hate crimes.
March 8th, 2010 | 3:47 pm | #39
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March 8th, 2010 | 4:11 pm | #40
I’m glad to see a couple of other folks posting that this isn’t about the classic church fellowship hall bingo social, but about slot machines. Unfortunately, the “civil rights” folks are neck deep in this. The Birmingham mayor, Langford, just got convicted for a number of questionable activities, not the least of which was a “miraculous” jackpot win at an Alabama gambling establishment.
It would seem that Jesse Jackson and Mr. Langford have forgotten why MLK did what he did. They have forgotten what the dream he had was about. They have decided to ride MLK’s coat-tails in order to bilk the black community, and everyone else they can, of their money. It’s selfish greed, pure and simple.
These are the same folks who keep pushing for a state lottery. As one comedian put it, “a lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.” This would apply to bingo (slot) machines as well.
March 8th, 2010 | 4:18 pm | #41
Jesse is about a relevant in today’s world as he was in the past. Totally worthless.
He lost all respect when he joined up with those thugs in Jena, La.
March 8th, 2010 | 4:40 pm | #42
Jessie Jackson is an utter duchebag.
March 8th, 2010 | 5:08 pm | #43
Retribution is the greatest lie…
It may build crowds, and firm-up followers; but just as the Democrats used divisional politics to secure the Black vote for decades… They now discard them for NEW groups, who will eventually suffer the same fate…
Distorted history will finally truth out… Their healing will walk the line of equality, and not (in fact) fear equality.
God bless them if they will walk away from Jessie Jackson, and others that pin them down… And join us in saving our Nation.
March 8th, 2010 | 6:13 pm | #44
Jesse the con man, when will he just dry up and blow away like other garbage.
March 8th, 2010 | 7:56 pm | #45
Years ago Don Siegalman was elected governor (you know, the one who is in jail now for corruption or some such thing) because he promised legal gambling. Oddly enough, soon after his election a referendum to legalize gambling was defeated. Big surprise to everyone. Evidently the folks who failed to vote in the election were more enthusiastic (con) about the referendum. Gambling is illegal in Alabama. Electronic bingo is slot machines. There can be no other word for it. This is just another effort on the part of democrats to overturn the will of the people.
March 8th, 2010 | 8:05 pm | #46
So, Bingo’s in the Constitution? Huh. Who knew?
March 8th, 2010 | 9:51 pm | #47
Jesse is a human cartoon character.
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