Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate Fought Against Desegregation Efforts

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

HUNTER WALKER MAY 21, 2013, 5:39 PM

E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP’s nominee for lieutenant governor, began his career as a minister and attorney in Boston. While there, he lent his support to a high-profile 1988 fight against a plan to desegregate public housing developments in the neighborhood of South Boston.

The 1988 battle over housing desegregation in South Boston began after the federal government found the city of Boston had illegally segregated public housing and prevented African Americans from moving into public developments in the neighborhood. Boston was ordered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to come up with a new tenant selection plan or face a federal takeover of its public housing system. As a result, Ray Flynn, the city’s mayor, came up with a desegregation plan.

Local news station WGBH filmed Jackson giving a speech at a July 1988 community meeting in South Boston hosted by opponents of the mayor’s desegregation plan. According to WGBH, at the event Jackson dismissed the desegregation plan as “social engineering.” In his remarks, Jackson characterized the matter as a question of freedom of choice.

“I am so tired of hearing the people of South Boston dumped on by the saviors of mankind that it makes me nauseous,” Jackson said of desegregation advocates. “I can understand the reaction of the people of South Boston apart from the racial issue because I don’t like being told by some bureaucrat how I’m going to live my life either.”

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[LonePirate]

1. Tea Party lunatics must think he is a dream candidate

Will enough sane people turn out in November to prevent him from holding office?

[KamaAina]

2. It's not 'E.W." It's just "Ew!"

[SoapBox]

3. wow...

stupid AND fucked up at the same time.

[Iliyah]

4. I saw Django Unchanined

and this jerk reminds of the part played by Samuel L. Jackson who loved his master so much that he would watch his race total annhilation.

[David__77]

5. He's one of those collaborators.

Scum.

[muntrv]

6. Oh joy! Another Uncle Ruckus!

[Blue_Tires]

8. +1

[John2]

7. All you need

to know is who finances him. You have bad people of all skin colors. You have people that will sell their own mother for money. That is the kind of rats they are. Blacks like him are in high demand for the Republican Party. There were Blacks that fought for the South and condoned slavery, even though they were very few.