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Moreover, just few weeks after Rev. Jackson's "reconciliation conference", Taylor's security forces attacked ethnic Krahns (President Doe's ethnic group) in densely populated city neighbourhoods killing as many as 300, according to the US State Department report, although the actual figures were much higher since the government refused to allow relatives and friends to claim the bodies. Women and children were gunned down and wounded ones hauled out of ambulances, according to the medical charity Medicins Sans Frontier. Although Dr. Martin Luther King, Rev. Jackson's mentor, once warned that "True peace is not merely the absence of tensions, it is the presence of justice", Jackson the "reconciler" and "peacemaker" made no comments. Perhaps this was another price Liberians had to pay for ignoring God by rejecting cruel masters as they did in 1980.
But Rev. Jackson's love affair with Liberia's settler rulers did not begin with Taylor. In 1974, the American visited Liberia, where late President William Tolbert presented him a gift, a solid gold Rolex watch, along with a request that he should lead a lobby for increased American attention to Liberia's economy problems. (Somehow, settler presidents seemed convinced that Rev. Jackson holds the key to America's money. Taylor, too, initially believed that with Mr. Jackson on his side, the Green Backs would roll in containers.) The Reverend proudly took the watch and offered immense thanks. But he did something else once he landed home: He rebuked Tolbert and Liberia for the gift and request, announcing that a country which could afford such gifts has no need for aid. He was right, except that he was dishonorable, since an honorable, decent act from this "man of God" would have been to refuse the gift with the same message he delivered after landing home with his gold watch. To the contrary, the Baptist preacher took the gift and reneged on his promise.
Similarly, when Liberians in the United States, during the early days of their civil war, asked Rev. Jackson to deliver a speech during a program organized to mirror the Taylor organized killing fields, the Baptist preacher reportedly demanded a $10,000 fee. They could not afford the money and he could not afford to deliver the speech.
Moreover, just few weeks after Rev. Jackson's "reconciliation conference", Taylor's security forces attacked ethnic Krahns (President Doe's ethnic group) in densely populated city neighbourhoods killing as many as 300, according to the US State Department report, although the actual figures were much higher since the government refused to allow relatives and friends to claim the bodies. Women and children were gunned down and wounded ones hauled out of ambulances, according to the medical charity Medicins Sans Frontier. Although Dr. Martin Luther King, Rev. Jackson's mentor, once warned that "True peace is not merely the absence of tensions, it is the presence of justice", Jackson the "reconciler" and "peacemaker" made no comments. Perhaps this was another price Liberians had to pay for ignoring God by rejecting cruel masters as they did in 1980.
But Rev. Jackson's love affair with Liberia's settler rulers did not begin with Taylor. In 1974, the American visited Liberia, where late President William Tolbert presented him a gift, a solid gold Rolex watch, along with a request that he should lead a lobby for increased American attention to Liberia's economy problems. (Somehow, settler presidents seemed convinced that Rev. Jackson holds the key to America's money. Taylor, too, initially believed that with Mr. Jackson on his side, the Green Backs would roll in containers.) The Reverend proudly took the watch and offered immense thanks. But he did something else once he landed home: He rebuked Tolbert and Liberia for the gift and request, announcing that a country which could afford such gifts has no need for aid. He was right, except that he was dishonorable, since an honorable, decent act from this "man of God" would have been to refuse the gift with the same message he delivered after landing home with his gold watch. To the contrary, the Baptist preacher took the gift and reneged on his promise.
Similarly, when Liberians in the United States, during the early days of their civil war, asked Rev. Jackson to deliver a speech during a program organized to mirror the Taylor organized killing fields, the Baptist preacher reportedly demanded a $10,000 fee. They could not afford the money and he could not afford to deliver the speech.
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