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May 2016 – In a recent press release, Rev. E.W. Jackson lamented the fact that no presidential candidate had offered a plan for restoring order in the nation’s urban battlefields.

Citing the media’s gratuitous attention to race riots and deaths in black neighborhoods, Jackson said, “For every black man who dies at the hands of police, 50 to 60 die in the streets at the hands of another black man.” Furthermore, he said that underlying urban problems are “a subculture that honors criminal behavior, gang membership, fathering children out of wedlock, and spending time in prison.”

He concludes that more government programs and intervention have failed and made the situation worse.

“The first black president of the United States has done nothing to address this issue,” said Jackson. “He has only used race as a wedge to divide Americans. … The candidate who embraces a unifying and substantive vision for addressing the problems plaguing our cities will probably win the election in November.”

Jackson served in the U.S. Marine Corps, practiced law, and is founder and senior pastor of the Called Church in Chesapeake, Virginia.

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