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Jesse Jackson: Jackson was the featured prime time speaker at the 2000 Democrat Convention. Jackson has a history of using anti-Semitic slurs and derogatorily calling New York City “Hymietown.” Jackson, a prominent self proclaimed "civil rights leader," is himself guilty of the same bigotry he dishonestly purports to oppose.
"The most hideous schemes are being put forth now in the name of conservatism," railed Jesse Jackson, the man who added "Hymietown" to our lexicon. "If this were Germany, we would call it fascism. If this were South Africa, we would call it racism. Here we call it conservatism."
Nobody hissed with disapproval when Jesse Jackson, miffed at a Supreme Court decision, declared that the justices were "paving the way back toward slavery."
Jesse Jackson, irked by a Supreme Court decision, likened the conservative justices to Ku Klux Klan arsonists: ''At night, the enemies of civil rights strike in white sheets, burning churches. By day, they strike in black robes.''
But nobody drew more savage abuse in 1996 than black conservatives -- usually at the hands of black liberals. Ward Connerly, chairman of California's Proposition 209 campaign to abolish race and gender quotas in state government, was routinely called an ''Uncle Tom'' and a ''traitor'' by the defenders of quotas. ''He's married to a white woman,'' hissed state Sen. Diane Watson of Los Angeles. ''He wants to be white.'' The Oakland Tribune depicted him in a cartoon as the proprietor of ''Connerly & Co./ Ethnic Cleansers'' -- with a Klansman's robe hanging in the window.