London Telegraph, August 17, 2009
Jesse Jackson has inherited the title of prince of the Ivory Coast kingdom of Sanwi from the late Michael Jackson.
The American pastor and onetime presidential candidate was honoured at a ceremony with Amon N’Douffou V, king of the Agni people of the Krindjabo kingdom.
The crowning ceremony was attended by bare-chested women.
The king rules over a million members of his tribe, which venerates Michael Jackson after making him their prince after he visited the kingdom in 1992.
Villagers deep in the rainforest launched a search for a successor to the singer who was crowned prince of the Agni people 17 years ago.
The tribe held an extravagent two-day royal funeral for Michael Jackson. Traditional dancers and lookalikes of the dead singer paraded before the king and 2,000 mourners.
Tribal chiefs appealed to the US embassy to press Jackson’s family to bring his body to the west African country for a burial in accordance with the local tradition of the Sanwi kingdom.
Jesse Jackson was on a three-day visit to the Ivory Coast, invited by the association of “Young Patriots”, who are supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo.
He found himself feted by the tribe and has now inherited the the title of prince—or son—of the Agni from the late star, who was not a relation.
Krindjabo lies deep in the tropical rainforest in the southeast of Ivory Coast. Most people survive by subsistence farming or hand-panning for gold.
The crowning ceremony attended by bare-chested women.
Original article
(Posted on August 19, 2009)
Comments
Ole Jesse must have liked that one… I guess he is still paying for the child support to the baby mama that he is not married to.
Good, hopefully Jackson will stay and govern in the Ivory Coast. He’s just as corrupt as the other African leaders.
“hopefully Jackson will stay and govern in the Ivory Coast”
Those natives live a subsistence life style, how could you possibly wish Mr. Bombastic on an innocent tribe.
That Mr. Jackson choses to stay in the US goes to show which country he sees as being the most desirable.
Even being crowned a prince in mother Africa isn’t enough to leave ‘racist’ America behind.
Isn’t there something in the Constitution about accepting foreign titles,and foreign emoluments?????
If there is,I don’t suppose that some administration in the distant future,when sanity has once again prevailed,can try Jackson in absentia for treason,could they???
I know I’m dreaming,but if I’m going to dream,I’m going to dream big.
The tribe held an extravagent two-day royal funeral for Michael Jackson.
Bare-chested women? Jesse looks like he’s having a good time, on the photo!
I think he might as well stay in Africa. Really! I mean, I don’t see any meaningful contribution he could have made to American society, so it,s not like you desperately need him. Plus, I guess Jesse would find his new life in Africa, rather enjoyable.
Yes, reports like this about Africa explain so much about African Americans. Now compare Ivory Coast (and they did what in science thousands of years ago?) with medieval France or ancient Greece or Byzantium.
I bet ole Jesse is thrilled to be king of another black tribe. It seems he has been dethroned by Obama for the American Black tribe Chief.
It looks like he is trying really hard not to look. You know if they would take M.J.’s body over there to be buried, then the tourist attraction or shrine would not be HERE, and maybe more would go over there and fall in love with their ROOTS and stay!
I don’t think Jesse Jackson would have a good time on the Ivory Coast, even counting the obvious carnal pleasures. After all, which white corporations in the Ivory Coast would you be able to shake down for donations, money and beer distributerships for your idiot kids? If you tell a black candidate for President of that country that you want to cut his n**s off, you wouldn’t be laughed at, you would be the one facing that kind of fate.
Would a real man of God attend a ceremony with bare chested women? Would he accept a title that crowns him as a prince, even if it is in a foreign land? Aren’t Christian men, especially one who has the title of Reverend, suppose to maintain a humble attitude and not act according to worldly ways? One thing for Jesse though, he doesn’t do a very convincing job of trying to pretend that he’s not a phony.
I’d like to know where in Africa they found “…lookalikes of the dead singer.” Not even his own family looked like him.
To Anonymous(Post # 5):
I believe that “no foreign titles or emoluments” applies to political officeholders in the USA.
— realist wrote:
With so many other things on which to criticize Jesse, and you have to focus on this? Please!
voter wrote at 2:59 PM on August 24:
With so many other things on which to criticize Jesse, and you have to focus on this? Please!
With so many other things on which to criticize Jesse, you have to focus on a comment, made by another poster here, that you have taken out of context, when the whole point of the comment to begin with was to show a man acting in a way that is vain-glorious, contrary, and way too worldly, for a professed believer and ordained minister of the Christian faith.
