OBESITY (FAT)

 Our people are falling more and more

During his 1984 presidential campaign, Reverend Jesse Jackson used unwise language in what he thought was an off-the-record media conversation. His words about “Hymietown,” a reference to Jewish power in New York, allowed Jews to attack him.

I say to you as intelligent people, sit down and talk with Rev. Jackson. Sit down, Jewish leaders, and talk with us. We are ready to talk with you. Sit down and talk like intelligent people who have a future at stake.

We are not making any idle threats, we have no weapons, we [don’t] carry so much as a pen knife. 

Leave him alone. If you want to defeat him, defeat him at the polls. We can stand to lose an election, but we cannot stand to lose our brother …

He has spoken beautifully about the wonders and the gifts of the Black woman, in fact, all women, and why women must never be oppressed.