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2011-04-15 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Jesse Jackson Subject of Gay Harassment Complaint

A former employee of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. at the Rainbow Push Coalition has filed a bombshell wrongful termination and discrimination complaint against the civil rights leader with the City of Chicago's Commission on Human Rights.

The complaint, filed sometime last year by Tommy R. Bennett, a regular on the Tom Joyner Radio show and member of Barack Obama's LGBT Leadership Council, includes shocking allegations about Jackson's behavior toward the openly gay staffer including an allegation that the civil rights leader propositioned him.

Jackson has denied the allegations in a legal response that was filed in July 2010 and resurfaced when the Windy City Times published a story Tuesday.

Bennett, 55, claims Jackson ridiculed him in front of other employees and required him to perform "humiliating tasks" like escorting women to Jackson's various hotel rooms, cleaning up after alleged trysts and packing his clothing. It also includes an allegation that Jackson asked for oral sex, according to the claim. Jackson flatly denied each claim in his response.

Posted by Beavis 2011-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Jessuh on the down-low? Really?

Posted by M. Murcek 2011-04-15 02:33|| 2011-04-15 02:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank goodness President Obama has been hanging out with Rev. Al Sharpton instead.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-04-15 08:33|| 2011-04-15 08:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Wouldn't be surprised. Jesse has always been kind of a scumball.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-04-15 08:35|| 2011-04-15 08:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems to me that someone probably tried to blackmail Jessie and when it didn't work they are trying to slander him. A large number of blacks don't particularly like gays (in fact going so far as to avoid the use of the Rainbow identifier to avoid being though of as gay) so the slander could potentially be extra damaging if believed.

Posted by Guillibaldo Elmereter7940 2011-04-15 10:33|| 2011-04-15 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 "Rainbow Push Coalition"

When I first heard that they named their organization this back in the '90s, I thought at the time that the name could be misconstrued by some (perhaps by prospective employees who later found their 'dreams' to be in error).

Posted by Mullah Richard 2011-04-15 11:09|| 2011-04-15 11:09|| Front Page Top

#6
Everyone knows bambi is on the downlow too.

Posted by Hellfish 2011-04-15 13:49|| 2011-04-15 13:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Reggie Love spills the beans in 3,2,1.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-15 14:59|| 2011-04-15 14:59|| Front Page Top

#8 LOL Mullah Richard:
Rainbow push-back.

GE7940 - maybe they could take a few stripes out of their rainbow to symbolize the removal of gays - or Jews, or Korean grocers or whoever else they hate this week - from their coalition.

They might not want to call it the Chocolate Push Coalition, however. ;-|

Posted by ryuge 2011-04-15 19:33|| 2011-04-15 19:33|| Front Page Top

#9 GE7940: A large number of blacks don't particularly like gays

"cleaning up after alleged trysts and packing his clothing. . . an allegation that Jackson asked for oral sex"

[because that's what gay men like to do, to anyone, anywhere, anytime, right?]

so the slander could potentially be extra damaging if believed.

Blackmail? The guy is a chauvinist pig who no doubt views gay men as equivalent to women (i.e., servants). I hope Bennett punched him in the nuts and gets a million bucks.

Posted by RandomJD 2011-04-15 20:34|| 2011-04-15 20:34|| Front Page Top

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