Jackson is interested in power. Money is just the way you keep score. A man who hungers for power cannot retire from the public eye if his power is derived from being in it.
If he was so interested in helping his "constituients" he wouldn't have squandered all the money he is reputed to have spent on his mistress(es). He would have seen that it went to helping the poor people he claims to represent.
To my way of thinking, Jesse Jackson is no better than any other politician who claims to feel the pain of the needy while living high on the hog. He is more interested in power than anything else. And you are right. I don't like him. I also don't like Bill Clinton, Al Sharpton, Ted Kennedy, and a whole bunch of others but my like or dislike doesn't change the facts.
So Jackson hasn't abandoned his child? Will he be there to be a father to him, to teach him how to play ball, to teach him how to be a man? I doubt it. He'll send money, he has plenty of that. What he won't spend is time and the message he sends is that it's ok, as long as you send money you don't have to spend time.
Why not ask a kid if he'd rather have a lot of money or his father to read to him at night.

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