Benny Johnson on Jesse Jackson: “What his ideology was is evil.”
Johnson: “Complete and total race hustler. Obviously, a lot of damage, enormous amount of damage, to the country and the fabric of the nation itself.”
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Fromt the February 17, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): I guess the breaking news as of this morning is that Jesse Jackson is dead. He lived a long life. He lived a life doing a lot of things that I totally disagree with. Complete and total race hustler. Obviously, a lot of damage, enormous amount of damage, to the country and the fabric of the nation itself, all like -- all the way through to Barack Obama's presidency, which just sought to effectively manipulate the American people along race lines and to try and break us off into secretarian groups in order to create the type of, like, violence that you see all across the rest of the globe, and it's terrible. You know? It's awful what they've done. It's called race communism. It stems from critical theory. It's just Marxism. It just uses the Marxist frame -- didn't mean to go here this morning, but since I saw that -- I didn't even know -- I wasn't even gonna talk about Jesse Jackson because, like, you know, whatever. But what his ideology was is evil. OK? And that's worth saying.
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So you can separate the human element from the political element. The political element is fair game. It's open to debate. You can -- I -- because I'm gonna — I'll debate Jesse Jackson and his history with race communism, which is what the guy did? The Rainbow Push Coalition is race communism. You have to talk about these things because the ideas live on. Karl Marx's ideas live on. What's the single worst person to live over the last couple hundred years? Well, it was absolutely Karl Marx. There is no doubt. But what about Hitler? Shut up. Like, seriously? Stack the bodies. Alright? Stack the bodies.