Jackson, who has largely stayed out of the spotlight during this mourning period, issued a fiery statement blasting the political opportunists who hijacked the solemn event to push their divisive agenda during the homegoing service for his father at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters in Chicago on Saturday.

On February 18, Jonathan Jackson Jr. pleaded during a press conference for people not to bring politics into his father's funeral services.

"Dad believed that funerals were not for the dearly departed. He believed funerals were for the living. He believed they were great gathering meetings.

...

"Do not bring your politics, out of respect to Reverend Jesse Jackson and the life that he lived, to these homegoing services. Come respectfully, and come to say thank you.

"But these homegoing services are welcome to all—Democrat, Republican, liberal, and conservative; right-wing, left-wing—because his life is broad enough to cover the full spectrum of what it means to be an American..." Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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