With Obama In Office Jesse Jackson Seeks To "Boil The Ocean" To Arrest Discontent With Obama

When you are Jesse Jackson and you see that if you "Speak Truth To Power" (to the White House and Congress) about your frustrations over the unemployment problems (and if you were willing to admit it) the violence problem that hurts many Black people - what do you do?

YOU OBFUSCATE.
You find another subject by which you can collect the energy of the young people who have two modes when it comes to activism:

1. Protesting against the ESTABLISHMENT AUTHORITIES when they are frustrated
2. Service Projects that give them the sense that they are connecting to others in the spirit of "Social Justice"

I credit Jesse Jackson for his understanding that if HE doesn't fill the void with this "Green Bus Tour" that these young people will SIT OUT THE NEXT ELECTION (they are not likely to come out and protest against Obama for jobs).

In his speech Obama was able to frame the anger that the students at Ball State should be feeling toward the Bankers and Oil companies instead of the federal government.  They have a fried in the federal government now.  They need to help the government succeed not protest against the present circumstances.

Jackson addresses packed Ball State crowd

Jesse Jackson & The "Hip Hop Caucus"

Rev Jesse Jackson Sr. and I wrote an article titled Selma, Montgomery,
Birmingham...Earth for the Huffington Post today
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-jesse-jackson/selma-montgomery-birmingh_b_448136.html).
We felt compelled, on Rosa Parks birthday, which is today, to connect our history,
to our current day challenges of economic opportunity and environmental existence.


The Hip Hop Caucus will soon be publically announcing the Hip Hop Caucus Clean
Energy Now! Tour (http://www.hiphopcaucus.org/bustour). We have partnered with the
Alliance For Climate Protection's Repower America campaign (Vice President Al Gore's
organization), and numerous African American organizations and organizations led by
young people, to coordinate this Bus Tour from February 18th - 24th. We will be
traveling by bus from New Orleans to Washington, DC, through Arkansas, Missouri,
Indiana and Ohio.

Rosa Parks, one of our country's greatest heroines, sat down on a bus and galvanized
a movement for equality that had been growing for some time. On February 18th, we
will be getting on a bus in New Orleans to spark the movement for economic
opportunity and existence on this planet that so many have been building for so
long.

Please stay tuned for more to come, we wanted to share this news with you first. No
matter where you are on this planet, you will be able to be a part of this tour and
movement.

For Future Generations...

Jesse Jackson and Yearwood On Green Energy

Clean-energy investments create more than three times the number of jobs than the equivalent investment in the fossil fuel industry. These are green-collar jobs for roofers, electricians, and construction workers, jobs like retrofitting old buildings and constructing new buildings that are energy efficient.

There will also be opportunity for entrepreneurs of color to have ownership in the clean-energy economy. African Americans will be able to go from being energy consumers to also being energy producers.

A clean-energy future is an answer to African American's calls for jobs, affordable costs of living, and safer, healthier neighborhoods. Big oil and their lobbyists have kept the United States dependent on dirty energy, and they have been allowed to disproportionately pollute the air that children breathe and the water they drink in low-income communities of color.

I would love to see someone bear this claim about. If Green Energy is going to be CHEAPER yet produce more abundant and higher paying job - I wonder how they plan to make this snake oil less flammable.