Jesse Lee Peterson
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 Jesse Lee Peterson |
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| Born: | May 24, 1949 (age 57) Midway, Alabama, USA |
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| Occupation: | Nondenominational Christian Minister, author, columnist |
| Website: | Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) |
Jesse Lee Peterson (born May 24, 1949 in Midway, Alabama) is the president and founder of The Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND), a group dedicated to promoting responsible fatherhood amongst African Americans.
Peterson is a television personality, hosting the Jesse Lee Peterson Show, which is produced and shown by God's Learning Channel. He also hosted the nationally syndicated, conservative "Jesse Lee Peterson Show" radio talk show on the Information Radio Network until December 30, 2005.[1]
His organization operates several programs, including: the BOND Home for Boys, After School Character-Building Program, Entrepreneur Program, Inmate Rehabilitation Program, and counseling services.
Peterson established the annual “National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson” event. He is a member of the advisory board of Project 21, an African American conservative organization, and a board member of the California Christian Coalition.[2]
On January 17, 2006, Peterson was a party to the case Jesse Lee Peterson, et al., v. Jesse Jackson, et al. (BC 266505), in Los Angeles County Superior Court, after a ruling the previous week by Judge George H. Wu. Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit against Jackson, his son Jonathan, and others on behalf of Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who was the alleged victim of a physical and verbal assault at an event hosted by Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. in December 2001. On January 27, 2006, a Los Angeles jury rejected Peterson's claim that Jesse Jackson had threatened him at a business meeting four years ago. The jury also found Jonathan Jackson did not hit Peterson, but split evenly (six to six) on whether he threatened an assault.
On September 21, 2005 Peterson penned a column for World Net Daily, in which he accused African-American people stranded in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina of being "welfare-pampered," "lazy" and "immoral."[3]
On February 28, 2006, as a member of a student panel discussion at the University of California, Irvine on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Peterson stated that Islam was an "evil religion" and that "extremist Muslims hate America."[4] The event was sponsored by the United American Committee and College Republicans, and gained national attention for the controversy and confrontation associated with it.[5] AP issues retraction of its reporting of Jesse Lee Peterson's remarks [1]
[edit] Books
- From Rage to Responsibility: Black Conservative Jesse Lee Peterson and America Today ISBN 1-55778-788-3
- SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America ISBN 0-7852-6331-4
[edit] References
- ^ The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show.
- ^ WorldNetDaily. Jesse Peterson.
- ^ WorldNetDaily. Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans. September 21, 2005.
- ^ FoxNews.com. Calif. Campus in Uproar Over Muslim Cartoons. March 01, 2006.
- ^ UnitedAmericanCommittee.com. The Unveiling of the Cartoons & A Discussion To Confront Terror: A panel discussion at U.C. Irvine.
