Book Discussion: Shakedown - Exposing The Real Jesse Jackson
"It was a shotgun ordination..."
"Exposing the real Jesse Jackson is about one of the most Politically Incorrect activities one can undertake in this country" - G. Gordon Liddy
Jesse Jackson and The Black Boule, Agents & Provocateurs
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"It was a shotgun ordination" - G. Gordon Liddy
"Didn't he preach today...?" - The Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan on Jesse Jackson at the Million Man March, 1995.
"Jesse's position on ordination was that he needed to be a Reverend in order to move around freely..."
Pastor passes torch of gospel choir
May 30, 2010 By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune
The day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in 1964, construction crews rolled off the lot of the church's future sanctuary, leaving a steel frame on the corner of Princeton Avenue and 45th Place.
For eight years, that steel frame stood as a symbol of the clash between the Rev. Clay Evans, pastor of Fellowship, and then-Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, who would not forgive the pastor for hosting the civil rights leader and sought revenge by hampering efforts to complete the new church.
But by the time Daley's son became mayor decades later, Evans had risen to prominence in the pulpit, gospel music and politics. His distinctive, raspy voice and gospel choir had earned international acclaim with millions of albums sold. Instead of fighting the younger Daley, Evans became one of his closest allies, bridging the gap between City Hall and clergy and empowering the black church.
On Sunday, in a swan song of sorts for the elder pastor, Evans, 84, held a ceremony to mark the passing of Fellowship's leadership to his successor, the Rev. Charles Jenkins, during a live recording of Jenkins' first album at the choir's helm. Jenkins said the album — titled "Pastor Charles Jenkins and Fellowship Live: The Best of Both Worlds" — bridges the two generations of ministry on Chicago's South Side and brings Evans' legacy full circle.
It was while working as a porter at one of Chicago's renowned music clubs that Evans discovered his voice. Instead of starting a band, he became a preacher who started a choir.
Ordained in 1950, Evans and five others soon founded Fellowship, or "The Ship" as it's known by parishioners. Evans quickly earned a reputation for his booming voice in the pulpit and choir. In 1965, the church's choir recorded the first of three dozen albums.
At least 81 aspiring ministers studied under Evans, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whom Evans ordained in 1965, about the same time Jackson left seminary to march with King.
A year earlier, when other churches bowed to political pressure and declined to welcome King to their pulpits, Evans rolled out the red carpet, Jackson said, but not without consequence.
Richard J. Daley blocked permits and persuaded bankers to halt their loans for the new church building. Other pastors underwrote the rest of the construction, which was completed by 1973.
Jackson credits Evans for shifting the mindset of African-American congregations in Chicago and in turn altering the way politicians viewed the institution of the black church. Before that time, churches were more concerned with "personal salvation over social emancipation," Jackson said. Evans galvanized ministers to reach out to the community, he said.
Charles Bowen, an aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley who helped him win his first election, recalls his surprise given the history when Evans approached him in 1990 to serve as an intercessor between City Hall and Chicago's African-American clergy.
"He felt Mr. Richard M. Daley should be given a chance and should not carry the weight of his father," said Bowen, the former executive assistant to the mayor who retired in 2004. Bowen brokered the donation of lots for churches to develop in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
Though some frowned on the arrangement, others savored the irony of the alliance between Evans and the younger Daley.
Evans said he believes in restoring and preserving legacies. It's the reason he gives for endorsing the re-election bid of Cook County Board President Todd Stroger this year despite accusations of corruption. Evans thought that Stroger, like Richard M. Daley, deserved a chance to transform the family legacy.
"That's what we do as ministers," he said. "We wanted to be his physician. The well don't need physicians."
It's also the reason Evans gives for handing over the reins of his church 10 years ago before many of his peers. Evans recognized that many pastors were staying past their prime and tarnishing their legacies by doing so. He didn't want to take away from any of the good he might have created.
"If you can put it into the hands of somebody capable and committed," he said, "it just gets better." "
" In 2007 [Cardinal George] asked Jews to reconsider descriptions of Jesus in the Talmud as a "bastard" in exchange for a softening of traditional Catholic prayers calling for Jews to be converted to Christianity.
"It was a shotgun ordination" - G. Gordon Liddy
"Didn't he preach today...?" - The Hon. Minister Louis Farrakhan on Jesse Jackson at the Million Man March, 1995.
"Jesse's position on ordination was that he needed to be a Reverend in order to move around freely..."
Pastor passes torch of gospel choir
May 30, 2010 By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune
The day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in 1964, construction crews rolled off the lot of the church's future sanctuary, leaving a steel frame on the corner of Princeton Avenue and 45th Place.
For eight years, that steel frame stood as a symbol of the clash between the Rev. Clay Evans, pastor of Fellowship, and then-Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, who would not forgive the pastor for hosting the civil rights leader and sought revenge by hampering efforts to complete the new church.
But by the time Daley's son became mayor decades later, Evans had risen to prominence in the pulpit, gospel music and politics. His distinctive, raspy voice and gospel choir had earned international acclaim with millions of albums sold. Instead of fighting the younger Daley, Evans became one of his closest allies, bridging the gap between City Hall and clergy and empowering the black church.
On Sunday, in a swan song of sorts for the elder pastor, Evans, 84, held a ceremony to mark the passing of Fellowship's leadership to his successor, the Rev. Charles Jenkins, during a live recording of Jenkins' first album at the choir's helm. Jenkins said the album — titled "Pastor Charles Jenkins and Fellowship Live: The Best of Both Worlds" — bridges the two generations of ministry on Chicago's South Side and brings Evans' legacy full circle.
It was while working as a porter at one of Chicago's renowned music clubs that Evans discovered his voice. Instead of starting a band, he became a preacher who started a choir.
Ordained in 1950, Evans and five others soon founded Fellowship, or "The Ship" as it's known by parishioners. Evans quickly earned a reputation for his booming voice in the pulpit and choir. In 1965, the church's choir recorded the first of three dozen albums.
At least 81 aspiring ministers studied under Evans, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, whom Evans ordained in 1965, about the same time Jackson left seminary to march with King.
A year earlier, when other churches bowed to political pressure and declined to welcome King to their pulpits, Evans rolled out the red carpet, Jackson said, but not without consequence.
Richard J. Daley blocked permits and persuaded bankers to halt their loans for the new church building. Other pastors underwrote the rest of the construction, which was completed by 1973.
Jackson credits Evans for shifting the mindset of African-American congregations in Chicago and in turn altering the way politicians viewed the institution of the black church. Before that time, churches were more concerned with "personal salvation over social emancipation," Jackson said. Evans galvanized ministers to reach out to the community, he said.
Charles Bowen, an aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley who helped him win his first election, recalls his surprise given the history when Evans approached him in 1990 to serve as an intercessor between City Hall and Chicago's African-American clergy.
"He felt Mr. Richard M. Daley should be given a chance and should not carry the weight of his father," said Bowen, the former executive assistant to the mayor who retired in 2004. Bowen brokered the donation of lots for churches to develop in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.
Though some frowned on the arrangement, others savored the irony of the alliance between Evans and the younger Daley.
Evans said he believes in restoring and preserving legacies. It's the reason he gives for endorsing the re-election bid of Cook County Board President Todd Stroger this year despite accusations of corruption. Evans thought that Stroger, like Richard M. Daley, deserved a chance to transform the family legacy.
"That's what we do as ministers," he said. "We wanted to be his physician. The well don't need physicians."
It's also the reason Evans gives for handing over the reins of his church 10 years ago before many of his peers. Evans recognized that many pastors were staying past their prime and tarnishing their legacies by doing so. He didn't want to take away from any of the good he might have created.
"If you can put it into the hands of somebody capable and committed," he said, "it just gets better." "
" In 2007 [Cardinal George] asked Jews to reconsider descriptions of Jesus in the Talmud as a "bastard" in exchange for a softening of traditional Catholic prayers calling for Jews to be converted to Christianity.
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March 20, 1986
2 CONSERVATIVE EXTREMISTS UPSET DEMOCRATS IN THE ILLINOIS PRIMARY
By ANDREW H. MALCOLM, Special to the New York Times
Correction Appended
CHICAGO, March 19— Two followers of the far-right conservative Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., both political unknowns, won election upsets in the Illinois Democratic primary Tuesday. Their victories created chaos in the campaign of the party's gubernatorial nominee, former Senator Adlai E. Stevenson 3d.
How the LaRouche candidates, who employ card tables and battery-powered megaphones at airports and street corners, were able to upset Mr. Stevenson's handpicked regular Democratic nominees for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State was a matter of speculation.
Mr. Stevenson, whose name has been familiar in the state since the late 19th century when his grandfather was Vice President of the United States, easily won renomination to challenge Gov. James R. Thompson, a Republican who was once United States Attorney. In Illinois primaries candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor appear separately on the ballot. In general elections, the two appear together as a two-person ticket.
Speculation on Stevenson
Mr. Stevenson was reported shocked but calm at the turn of events. There was speculation that he might resign the Democratic nomination to avoid association with the LaRouche forces. This has not happened before in Illinois, and there is no apparent legal provision for filling such a vacancy.
In the Chicago City Council races, the contest for power between Mayor Harold Washington and Alderman Edward R. Vrdolyak remained undecided, with two seats apparently won by the Mayor's candidates and three by Mr. Vrdolyak's. Two seats were still in dispute this afternoon. [ Page A18. ] Spokesmen for Mr. LaRouche's group, the National Democratic Policy Committee, attributed their candidates' victory to their platform, which opposes the budget-balancing law and favors a laser defense system as well as mandatory screening of all Americans for the disease AIDS. They said their group was more in touch with the concerns of average Illinois citizens.
However, politicians here suggested other reasons: an unusually low turnout of about 25 percent of the 6.1 million registered voters and the relatively unfamiliar names of Mr. Stevenson's candidates, George Sangmeister for Lieutenant Governor and Aurelia Pucinski for Secretary of State. The LaRouche victors were Mark J. Fairchild for Lieutenant Governor and Janice Hart for Secretary of State.
This, the politicians speculated, combined with Democratic overconfidence, lackluster races and rainy weather almost statewide, which held down turnout for all but the most dedicated voters. There were emerging indications, too, that some Republican voters abandoned their party's largely uncontested primary ballot to declare themselves Democrats for the day.
Under Illinois law, voters can change party registration by oral declaration on Election Day. Such crossover voting, which enables supporters of one party to select a weaker opposition ticket or to influence a tight race in the other party, has affected both parties here in past elections.
Mr. Stevenson could undertake a write-in effort or attempt to mount a campaign for Governor under a third-party label. To do this he would have to assemble a slate of candidates for all statewide offices: Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Comptroller and trustees for the University of Illinois. According to Cal Hudson, associate director of the Illinois Board of Elections, Mr. Stevenson would have until Aug. 4 to file such a ticket along with petitions containing at least 25,000 signatures. Cannot Run as Independent
Mr. Stevenson, who nearly defeated Mr. Thompson four years ago in the closest gubernatorial race in state history, cannot run as an independent because the filing deadline for independents was last December. And because his current running mates, Mr. Sangmeister and Miss Pucinski, lost Tuesday, they cannot appear on another party ticket in November.
Mr. Stevenson, long regarded by party regulars as an unpredictable maverick, met with aides today.
''This is insane,'' said Governor Thompson, who is seeking a fourth term. ''It's going to be a very long year.'' The Governor also said the upsets were lessons to all politicians not to take voters for granted.
In Washington, LaRouche spokesmen said they had more than 700 candidates seeking state and local offices in virtually every primary this year. Mr. LaRouche, a 63-year-old millionaire publisher of conservative books and tracts who began his political career as a Marxist, has run for President in 1976, 1980 and 1984, receiving few votes.
In a less colorful election encounter, Judy Koehler, a state Representative from the conservative wing of Illinois's Republican Party, won the nomination to oppose the incumbent, Senator Alan J. Dixon, a Democrat, in November. Mrs. Koehler defeated George Ranney, an executive of the Inland Steel Company.
The incumbent Attorney General, Neil Hartigan, a Democrat, turned back an aggressive primary challenge by Martin J. Oberman, a Chicago alderman. Three prominent Democratic Representatives, Cardiss Collins, Gus Savage and Melvin Price, also defeated primary challengers.
Late today Mr. Fairchild, the victorious 28-year-old Larouche candidate for Lieutenant Governor, invited Mr. Stevenson to join the LaRouche ticket. There was no immediate Stevenson comment.
photo of Mark Fairchild (AP) (page A18); photo of Janice Hart (page A18); photo of Adlai Stevenson 3d (AP)
Two LaRouche Illinois Victories Stun Democrats
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