It’s been said that Jesse Jackson never met a TV camera he didn’t like.

The man has shown up more often in more unexpected places than Kilroy, Waldo and Carmen San Diego put together.

So, when it comes to the topic of black slavery in the Sudan…where in the world is Jesse Jackson?

To be totally fair, we’ve heard the man has been awfully busy lately, trying to arrange black reparations payoffs to great-great-great-grandchildren of folks who might never have been slaves in the first place. Nothing builds a following faster than free money.

Gee, maybe some astute political scientist could pick up on that theme and build a really powerful party, someday.

Back to Jesse. Would someone please tell him, the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus that black people are being sold into slavery today, as I speak? They would probably be shocked to learn that thousands of Christians have been captured by Islamic warlords in the Sudan and are being sold for 33 dollars a head. And that the UN has opposed efforts of ministries like Christian Solidarity International to emancipate these victims of Muslim tyranny.

Ooops. Did I say Muslim? Gee, news like that might not set too well with outspoken Muslim civil rights leaders like Louis Farrakhan.

You don’t suppose they could put their heads together over coffee and find a way to visit the Sudan together and bring peace to that war-torn land, do you? They might even be able to take a network camera crew along with them.

Then again, if they did, there’d be no really compelling reason for the Chinese government to keep its 700-thousand man security force guarding the Sudanese oil fields. And, of course, it’s mere coincidence that the Sudan is just a short forced march from the Middle East. And it’s an oversight that none of these facts have been reported by the mainstream media.

Could it be that Jesse Jackson and Tom Brokaw have learned when to look and not touch?

Who knows, 140 years from now, Jesse Jackson the fifth might get around to requesting Sudanese reparations?

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