The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the veteran liberal activist, one-time Democratic presidential contender and one of the last living links to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, has been hospitalized with a rare disorder.
Jackson, 84, is under observation in a Chicago hospital for progressive supranuclear palsy, Jackson’s organization, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, announced Wednesday, according to WLS-TV.
“He has been managing this neurodegenerative condition for more than a decade,” the organization said in the statement, according to CNN.
“He was originally diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease however, last April, his PSP condition was confirmed. The family appreciates all prayers at this time,” the statement said.
I met him in Jackson, Mississippi after Katrina. He was showing is infirmity even then.
Its called AIDS
that is his brain disorder
I didn’t know he had a brain.
His brain disorder is called liberalism
Back in the early 90’s, I was waiting for a table with co-workers at a at the time trendy popular Washington D.C. restaurant-we had reservations…just before we were seated, Jesse Jackson and his entourage rolled up and they gave OUR table to them. Was SO pissed-said right in front of them I don’t give a rats A$$ who they are-nobody should be able to just butt in front of us and was it because we were the wrong color? He was so arrogant I wanted to throw up on his table.