Jesse Jackson calls on Arnold to spare Tookie's life

Gangs have done immeasurable harm to the Black community. The Reverend Jesse Jackson would make a similar statement in the right context.

The context was different this morning in Chicago.

From AP:

With only two days left before the scheduled execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, the Rev. Jesse Jackson made another appeal for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to spare the life of the reformed gang leader Saturday.

Jackson said Williams had changed dramatically while in prison, worked to discourage troubled youths from joining violent street gangs, and could serve humanity better if allowed to live. Williams' execution is scheduled for 12:01 a.m. Tuesday.

Reformed gang leader??? That's AP in the first paragraph, not Jesse.

If Tookie truly is reformed, he'd be telling the authorities what he knows about the surely many unsolved crimes the Crips have been implicated in. Yes, that means he'd be "ratting out" his former (or is it former?)friends still in the Crips.

And Williams would be dictating to California law enforcement everything--and I mean, everything--he knows about he vicious gang he helped create.

That is, once again, if he was truly a changed man.

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