The Spirit of Fred Hampton and Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition stands still on the Shoulders of the Old Left slogan - " Red, Yellow, Brown , Black and White/ Unite and Fight the Bourgeosie !! That Spirit lives in the Obama/Biden All People's Democratic Party .

The Spirit of Fred Hampton and Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition stands still on the Shoulders of the Old Left slogan - " Red, Yellow, Brown , Black and White/ Unite and Fight the Bourgeosie !! That Spirit lives in the Obama/Biden All People's Democratic Party .

http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2014/05/i-d-rather-have-roosevelt-in-wheelchair.html

"I 'd rather have Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Reagan on a horse." RAINBOW COALITION PREFIGURED OBAMA'S WINNING COALITION By Charlie Brown "I 'd rather have Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Reagan on a horse." - Jesse Jackson Rainbow Coalition Presidential Candidate Barack Obama's national electoral coalition majority, his winning Presidential mass of voters, is essentially an actualization of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition idea from the 1984 and 1988 Presidential Campaign. Listen to the speeches linked below. They are politically prophetic in articulating themes that became winners for Obama in 2008 and 2012. From this historical fact, progressive activists in 2014 can take heart that the long term grind of building from the grassroots can succeed , can make winning combinations. Our day-to-day struggles on behalf of the 99% executed with voting consciousness can gain election victories, and make change from the bottom up. Obama himself was a community organizer, like many of us political activists, social workers, legal services workers, union organizers, women's groups, environmentalists, food activists etc. Jackson garnered a sizable number of votes in primaries , though less than a majority, for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. 24 years later Jackson's constituency, with community organizing and politicizing, became the majority that elected an African American, to most people's amazement. What a giant step forward for White Americans ! I felt such pride in my fellow Americans who are White, when they smashed the historical scourge of racism by voting in large numbers for Barack Obama for President in 2008 and 2012. Both the Jackson Rainbow and the Obama Rainbow had to be anti-white supremacist at their cores as their candidates were Black. No racists gonna vote for Jackson or Obama. Of course, by the name Jackson gave his Coalition , Rainbow, he attracted multi-racial support. Obama's winning majorities were the same : all colors of the Rainbow, and heavy Black, Brown , Yellow and Red support. In 1984 and 1988 , we knew in our hearts that not enough white people were ready to vote for a Black person , for Jackson to win. Twenty-four years later, White America took a giant step toward Martin Luther King's dream of an integrated, prejudice-free society, by voting in a large enough minority , a majority in combination with the whole Rainbow , to elect a Person of Color President of the United States of America. We had taken a leap over that last barrier to Jackson's winning in 1984 and 1988. Jackson explicitly included Lesbian and Gay liberation in the Rainbow, at a time when that movement was relatively small compared to today. Interestingly, LGBT activists now have the Rainbow as a symbol. Perhaps , Jackson's most memorable line in his speeches is a shout-out for the rights of the disabled: "I 'd rather have FDR in a wheelchair than Reagan on a horse." Jackson's speeches are a fairly thorough critique of Reaganism at its roots, the ideology still at the core of today's tea Republican lies and demagogy. Jackson outlines ,way back then, the program for us to reverse Reaganism and the tea Party's unAmericanism today. Obama's victories mean we can build majorities to reverse Reagan and the tea Party all the way to the America of Martin Luther King's dream. And the Obama Rainbow Coalition is a bigger majority than reflected in the elected representation in the States and Congress, as the Snakely Republicans have Gerrymandered to beat the band. When we get around that they are really in electoral trouble

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Coalition_(Fred_Hampton)

The Rainbow Coalition was an antiracist, anticlass[1] multicultural movement founded April 4, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois by Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party, along with William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots Organization and José Cha Cha Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords. It was the first of several 20th century black-led organizations to use the "rainbow coalition" concept.[2] Rainbow Coalition Formation 1969 Type Civil rights Headquarters Chicago, Illinois Location United States Founder Fred Hampton Key people Fred Hampton José Cha Cha Jiménez William "Preacherman" Fesperman Some members of the Young Patriots included Jack (Junebug) Boykin, Bobby Joe Mcginnis and Hy Thurman who worked with Field Marshall Bobby Lee of the Black Panthers. The founder of the coalition, Fred Hampton, first met Jose Cha Cha Jimenez of the Young Lords in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood the day after the Young Lords were in the news, after they had occupied the police community workshop meeting of the 18th District Police Station. Fred Hampton was arrested twice in February 1969 with Jose Cha Cha Jimenez at the Wicker Park Welfare Office. Both were charged with Mob Action during peaceful pickets of the welfare office protesting mistreatment of the patrons. The Rainbow Coalition soon included various radical socialist community groups like the Lincoln Park Poor People's Coalition,[3] later, the coalition was joined nationwide by the Students for a Democratic Society ("SDS"), the Brown Berets, the American Indian Movement and the Red Guard Party. In April 1969, Hampton called several press conferences to announce that this "Rainbow Coalition" had formed. Some of the things the coalition engaged in joint action against was poverty, corruption, racism, police brutality, and substandard housing.[4] The participating groups supported each other at protests, strikes, and demonstrations where they had a common cause.[5][6] The coalition later included many other local groups like Rising Up Angry, and Mothers and Others. The Coalition also brokered treaties to end crime and gang violence. Hampton, Jimenez and their colleagues believed that the Richard J. Daley Democratic Party machine in Chicago used gang wars to consolidate their own political positions by gaining funding for law enforcement and dramatizing crime rather than underlying social issues.[citation needed] The coalition eventually collapsed under duress from constant harassment by local and federal law enforcement, including the murder of Fred Hampton.[6] Legacy Edit The phrase "rainbow coalition" was co-opted over the years by Reverend Jesse Jackson, who eventually appropriated the name in forming his own, more moderate coalition, Rainbow/PUSH. Some scholars, including Peniel Joseph, assert that the original rainbow coalition concept was a prerequisite for the multicultural coalition that Barack Obama built his political career upon.[7] Jeffrey Haas, a lawyer who represented the BPP after Hampton's assassination, praised some of Hampton's politics, stating that his work in unifying movements are things one can learn from him.[8] However, Haas was critical towards the way Hampton ran the BPP hierarchical organization. Haas praised the horizontal structure of Black Lives Matter stating: "They may also have picked up on the vulnerability of a hierarchal movement where you have one leader, which makes the movement very vulnerable if that leader is imprisoned, killed, or otherwise compromised. I think the fact that Black Lives Matter says, 'We're leader-full, not leaderless,' perhaps makes them less vulnerable to this kind of government assault."[8]