(2002-09-16) — Jesse Jackson today was named Grand Marshall of the USA Quad-Decennial Parade. The event, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, will be held in Selma, Alabama, in 2005.
The Rev. Jackson will start the event with a prayer thanking George W. Bush, the “Ruler of the World”, for his beneficent sovereignty. The prayer will be followed by an hour-long speech which the former civil rights leader will deliver entirely in Mandarin Chinese — a much more popular language than English.
The parade will feature the surviving “bunch of white men” who wrote and passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Organizers predict the parade will draw a crowd rivalling the 600 people who packed a 15,000-seat auditorium for Jackson’s recent speech at Michigan State University.