Yeah, this is the right thing to do:
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has denied a request to allow the late civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
At first glance, this would appear to be a spiteful act. When you look at the criteria for said honor, however, the truth emerges:
The Speaker considered past precedent of mostly reserving the practice for former presidents and select former government officials and military honorees.
And Jackson wouldn’t qualify under a single one of those categories, would he? Because he never did a single damn thing except ride the Racism Grifter Express (which, to be fair, I think he did actually create).
And while we’re there, an honest IRS investigation and audit into his “Rainbow Coalition”‘s finances might in all likelihood have ended with him in jail for financial fraud or at best mismanagement. But that was never going to happen, of course.
Had Jackson ever been elected to office on the Token Negro ticket, he would have been proven to be as inept and venal as the asshole (another “community activist”) who was eventually elected to the Presidency, on the same ticket.