Word: jacksonism
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...Enquirer to break its story, given the rumors going around even before Ashley Stanford was born 20 months ago. Everybody who was anybody in black political circles had heard reports of a scene that could have come straight out of a Terry McMillan novel: it was said that Jackie, Jackson's wife of 38 years, had barged into his office and upbraided Stanford for getting pregnant in order to "trap" her husband. Or that Jackson was sleeping at the home of his son, Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., because Jackie had kicked him out of the house. Several news organizations...
...usually the case when His Grandiloquence gets into trouble, Jackson has a scapegoat. According to friends, he privately accuses the same vast right-wing conspiracy that tried to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton of orchestrating a campaign to discredit him because he led protests against the alleged voting-rights abuses in Florida. So far, he has offered no evidence that the charge is true. But from Jackson's standpoint, the timing of last week's bombshell--right after the holiday named for his hero, Martin Luther King Jr.--could not have been worse...
...expulsion of six roughnecks from a Decatur, Ill., high school; the supposed lynching of a Mississippi youth, which turned out to be a suicide--to the glorious civil rights battleground of Selma, Ala. Since last fall, he has been tussling with his former protege, Al Sharpton, who annoyed Jackson by launching a boycott of Burger King, which has long been one of Jackson's corporate allies. Not until last year's presidential campaign, when Jackson worked his heart out to help produce the huge black turnout that nearly put Al Gore in the White House, did he regain some...
...million" in exchange for her story. She says she declined. But as Stanford notes, there are plenty of disgruntled former Rainbow staff members around who "hate Jesse and want to destroy him" so much they didn't need cash as an incentive to spill what they knew. It was Jackson, in his arrogance, who provided them with the squalid tale that may bring him down. To appropriate one of Jackson's slogans, his time has gone...
THIS NEVER SEEMS TO HAPPEN TO PHIL JACKSON...