Street Roots • July 14-20, 2017
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“which is an accomplishment of sorts,
considering the administration’s track
record,” Jackson said.
Jackson said that if referees handled
the NBA finals the way we handle
voting, it wouldn’t be tolerated.
“No one wants an unfair ballgame,”
Jackson said. “They want good, honest
referees.
“We put more integrity on a
basketball game than we do on voting,”
Jackson said. “There should be integrity
on both.”
One way to restore the integrity to
voting is to pass laws that would
automatically register voters as soon as
they turn 18, Jackson said in a recent
column for the Chicago Sun-Times. In
2015, Oregon became the first state to
do this; unless they opt out, eligible
voters are automatically registered
when they obtain or renew a driver’s
license or state ID card.
Along with efforts to suppress voters,
Jackson said he also took issue with
Attorney General Je ff Sessions’ plans to
increase the use of private prisons.
“He wants to open up private jails
and close public schools,” Jackson said.
“Less voting and more prison.
“H e’s a Confederate,” Jackson said.
“That’s what he stands for.”
Jackson said that if King were alive
today, “he would understand the
backlash, what I call the ‘counter-
cultural revolution.’”
“He would fight to resist it,” Jackson
said. But “he would certainly not be
surprised by it.
And resist is exactly what Jackson
said he intends to do.
“There are two big elections this year
in New Jersey and in Virginia,” Jackson
said. “And next year, the entire
Congress is up for re-election.”
The upcoming elections will give
those who didn’t vote, and those who
did and are suffering from voters’
remorse, “an opportunity to redeem
themselves,” Jackson said.
JESSE JACKSON: THROUGH THE YEARS
Jesse Jackson was born Oct. 8,1941, in
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Left Behind
by Daniel Cox
I once led bad company.
We were hellhound thugs
Loathing and hated by all.
Even I feared them which was a boon
Or bane, it happens
When they commit mutiny.
For I was chewed up and spit out
Broke, broken.
That’s the way the game goes,
Or so I am told.
Sum m er
by M addy Brown-Clark
Summer is here
With rainbow fountains
And Lilac Breezes
Sunshine songs
With guitars humming
Ferris Wheels
And cotton candy
And country races
Full of fun and
Smiling faces.
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