Note to the MSM: Will you please stop calling Jesse Jackson a “reverend.”
LONDON — Veteran activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson compared the global anti-capitalist movement to the U.S. civil rights struggle, the battle against apartheid in South Africa and the fight for Indian independence during a visit to an Occupy camp in London on Thursday.
“Jesus was an Occupier, born under a death warrant, a Jew by religion, born in poverty under Roman occupation,” the two-time candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination told a crowd near Saint Paul’s Cathedral. “Gandhi was an Occupier, Martin Luther King was an Occupier, (Nelson) Mandela was an Occupier.”
A man dressed in a well-tailored dark wool jacket and crisp checked shirt — not your stereotypical Occupy protester — cried as he watched Jackson. “He is my hero,” he said.