Ain’t No Stopping Us Now
‘There is nothing too hard for God’ Says Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. At Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fort Washington
By Hamil R. Harris // PHOTOS BY HAMIL R. HARRIS
Rev. Jesse Jackson preached at the Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fort Washington Jan. 28 where he said that the work of Dr. Martin Luther King is far from over.
Rev. Jackson delivers sermon at Ebenezer AME Church in Fort Washington, MD in Prince George's. PHOTO: HAMIL HARRIS / PRINCE GEORGE'S SUITE MAGAZINE
Looking good and sounding strong, the 76-year-old Civil Rights icon along with Co-Pastors, The Reverend Dr. Grainger Browning, Jr. and The Reverend Dr. Jo Ann Browning and their members said that not even President Trump can reverse all of the gains African Americans have made --- that extends from the board room to the football field -- in this country.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. and wife, Jacqueline Jackson with Rev. Dr.. Jo Ann Browning and Rev. Dr Grainger Browning, Jr. PHOTO: HAMIL HARRIS / PRINCE GEORGE'S SUITE MAGAZINE
“When I saw the big bad football game between Georgia and Alabama, the press just mentioned who organized it and I said Dr. King organized that game. (Gov. George) Wallace blocked the school door, he didn’t organize it…it would have been illegal to play together or stay together,” Jackson preached. “Our struggle made the New South possible. Michael Jordan couldn’t have gone to North Carolina…Bo Jackson couldn’t have gone to Auburn, our struggle made the New South possible.”
Jackson speaks with young people. PHOTO: HAMIL HARRIS // PRINCE GEORGE'S SUITE MAGAZINE
Jackson was referring to June 11, 1963 when the Alabama Governor blocked the entrance to the school to prevent it from being integrated. He later said that Alabama elected a Democratic senator because Blacks went to the polls and voted. “One out of every third person that voted was black.”
“I am not worried about the Parkinson situation because I have seen a lot in my life,” Jackson said (he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017). “I went to jail when I was 19 in Greenville, SC along with seven classmates trying to use a public library in 1960.”
“I saw Mandela come out of jail. I saw the Japanese rebound from being bombed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I saw the Great Wall of China. I have seen a lot in my life and time and in all that I have seen, I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread,” said Jackson as his voice grew louder. “Job said though you slay me yet when I trust you. I know that my redeemer liveth. There is nothing too hard for God.”
