I guess I should not be surprised that Jesse Jacksonhas jumped up on top of Rosa Parks’ corpse along with Chucky Schumer to pimp the deceased civil rights pioneer's corpse. After all, this is the lowlife who built a career on the lie that he held the dying Martin Luther King in his arms and who wiped blood from the railing of the Lorraine Hotel on his shirt to give himself “street cred” on that awful April day.

Take his latest column in the Chicago Sun-Times.

There are those who will honor her now in the morning while working to overturn her legacy in the afternoon. President Bush honored her and then nominated Samuel Alito, a states' rights, strict-constructionist throwback to a bygone age, to the Supreme Court. Alito is a "favorite" of the conservative right wing in the nation that has stood on the opposite side of history from Rosa Parks. His legal foundation is clearly adverse to civil rights, women's right to self-determination and labor. He has even earned himself the nickname "Scalito," after Justice Antonin Scalia, the court's most radical reactionary.

To truly honor Rosa Parks, we urge three simple steps: First, support Rep. Jesse Jackson's (D-Ill.) bill to place a permanent statue of Rosa Parks in the Great Hall of Congress. Give Rosa a chance to stare down the champions of slavery and segregation that line those halls. Second, Congress must pass the extension of the Voting Rights Act, the key provisions of which will expire in 2007. Finally, the Senate must stand up against those judicial nominees who would turn their backs on equal opportunity for all. We cannot afford to go back to the age when the law worked against equal rights.

Really, Jesse? Last time I checked, it was the GOP that stood foursquare in favor of civil rights while it was your Slave-ocrat Party that supported Jim Crow. States rights is a legitimate constitutional principle that was abused by Democrats to deny rights to blacks; that does not make it illegitimate in a host of other areas. And as far as Alito being “adverse to civil rights, women’s rights to self-determination and labor”, please offer some concrete, indisputable details rather than vague accusations.

As for your three simplistic steps, I see only one that has merit – the Rosa Parks statue. The termination of the VRA provisions is a long-delayed part of that landmark piece of legislation which will do nothing to harm voting rights but will make the laws of the US apply equally in all states. And to deny this highly qualified and thoughtful jurist a place on the nation’s highest court would be a travesty which would disgrace ms. Parks, not honor her or her legacy.

Actually Jesse, let me point out that Ms. Parks was an honorable, honest woman who lived a life that was unquestionably exemplary. Perhaps the best way of honoring her is for a lying, cheating, stealing adulterer like yourself to retire from public life and to live out your life in a penitential fashion doing more good for others than for yourself.

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