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i went to www.thepalladium.tv and got this:
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BENTON HARBOR -- Like the small towns of Bethlehem, Selma and Montgomery, Ala., the small city of Benton Harbor may bring forth a great new idea, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Monday.
And U. S. Rep. John Conyers of Detroit, ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said he will push for congressional hearings to help make that happen.

Jackson returned to Benton Harbor on Sunday after his brief visit during the riots June 17 and 18. This time, he met with several segments of the Benton Harbor community.

He preached the sermon Sunday at Brotherhood of All Nations COGIC church, held several meetings Sunday afternoon and started Monday with a visit to the African Arts & Culture Council.

His public agenda included a visit with the Council for World-Class Communities, a working lunch, then the public meeting with Conyers, a march to City Hall and a visit to the City Commission.

He listened to all those groups. Instead of the general terms he used at his June visit, Jackson talked about specific Benton Harbor issues Monday.

But at each stop, his message was the same: City leaders should work together, develop a master plan, and realize the true goals are equal protection under the law and equal access to capital.

"If we could solve the Voting Rights Act in Selma, we could solve it anywhere," Jackson said at the early afternoon meeting with Conyers at the Sammie Smith Family Investment Center. "When we did solve it in Selma, it had applications for the entire country. That's the same as Benton Harbor.

"Benton Harbor is a metaphor for abandoned urban policy everywhere. The more we act here to make visible the city's plight, the more people are going to take the model of how to act upon it, and how to do things in their towns."

Conyers said, "We are now at a new chapter for Benton Harbor, and by extension, the whole struggle for equality (that) we have struggled for, for so long."

Conyers, dean of the Congressional Black Caucus, said he had contacted U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, before responding to Jackson's invitation to visit because Benton Harbor is in Upton's district. He said Upton, a friend of his, agreed to help as he could.
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Conyers also e-mailed key Congress members and state officials. He urged the audience not to view his efforts as black versus white or Democrat versus Republican.

"This is a national problem," Conyers said.

"Here we are trying to promote democracy to a president who doesn't understand it. This is a time for everybody of good will to come together to do something.

"All we want to know is: What are you going to do now? This is put-up or shut-up time. From this date, July 7, what are you planning to do?"

Conyers said everything that has happened since the Benton Harbor riots has been emergency action to deal with symptoms, but nothing has been done to develop a plan for a cure. As Jackson had, Conyers laid part of the blame on factional fighting within the city.

He said he wanted to see a new sense of community, new leadership and a new commitment from every citizen in the city to the highest ranking people in government.
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Conyers said Benton Harbor's problems are not new and not purely local. He said Jackson has addressed them for 35 years.

He called on people in the audience from Detroit to raise their hands. Nearly a dozen of the more than 120 people at the public meeting raised their hands. Conyers said their presence showed how cities across Michigan are joining to confront common problems. Other people in the audience identified their hometowns as Chicago, South Bend, South Haven, Muskegon and Highland Park.

"Even the lamest member of Congress would realize we've got to have congressional hearings," Conyers said. "Even the slowest wit in any public office would realize we have to take the issues to Lansing and involve people of every race and color."
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Jackson implied the critical color is green, as in dollars.

He said the differences between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor are not just racial; there is an investment gap. He said if Benton Harbor were all white and the same investment gap existed, it would be an all-white slum.

He said the struggle for racial equality has reached its fourth and final phase. The first was ending legal slavery. The second was ending legal segregation. The third was securing the right to vote.

The final phase is equal access to capital, industry and technology.

"You can be out of slavery, beyond segregation, beyond the right to vote and still be in a slum in Benton Harbor," Jackson said.

That is because people lack the most basic American right, the right to equal protection under law. He said that includes equal economic opportunity from banks and distribution of federal funds.

"Given the budget deficit, where is the money?" he asked. "You either find more money or you change how you divide it. Benton Harbor, Kalamazoo, Highland Park, Muskegon must have their fair share of whatever does exist."

"You also have a criminal justice problem," Jackson said. "In Berrien County 12 percent of the population is African-American and 60 percent of the jail population is African-American."

He said most of the prisoners committed non-violent crimes. Some are jailed for failing to pay child support. Yet while they are in jail, they have to pay the county $43 per day for every day they are imprisoned.

If they could not afford child support before, they have a tougher time after paying their jail/hotel bills. Further, people with prison records are disqualified from many kinds of jobs.

Jackson said the Berrien County jail is always full - a profit-making enterprise. He called for an investigation.

Jackson told Curtis Murphy, a political activist, Mayor Charles Yarbrough and Commissioners Dillon Barnes and Leroy Harvey and county commissioner the Rev. James Atterberry to stop "cutting each other up" and combine forces on bigger issues.

He said leaders he had met reminded him of a quilt his mother made. Separately, the pieces of the quilt were just rags, none big enough to cover him or his brother from the cold. Sewed together, the rags made a beautiful, warm quilt.

Virgie McCoy Rollins, president of the National Federal of Democratic Women, told the audience at the Family Investment Center she hoped they would take the resources offered Monday and build as a team.

She urged them to develop a master plan to work with those resources to better their cities.

At the Council for World-Class Communities open forum Monday morning, an audience of about 100 listened to Jackson's message.

Among audience members were Cornerstone Alliance President Jeff Noel, Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey, Lake Michigan College President Richard Pappas, St. Joseph City Manager Frank Walsh, Charles McCallum, local head of Michigan Works!, Martin Golub, director of Southwest Michigan United Way, and members of the St. Joseph Township board. Whirlpool President and CEO David Whitwam introduced Jackson.

Jackson took a similar message to the City Commission meeting Monday night.
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