“They Did Not Know Jesse”, Jesse Jackson Jr. Calls Out Obama, Clinton, Biden Over Funeral Speeches

“They Did Not Know Jesse”, Jesse Jackson Jr. Calls Out Obama, Clinton, Biden Over Funeral Speeches At his father’s memorial, Jesse Jackson Jr. did something almost no one expected: He called out three former presidents, Obama, Biden and Clinton- right after they spoke. “Yesterday, I listened for several hours to three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson,” he said. Rev. Jesse Jackson kept a tense relationship with the political order because of “the demands of our message” speaking for “the disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected” not for any party line.