BOSTON, July 28 (UPI) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson has infuriated a prominent Boston black leader with incendiary remarks about the city, the Boston Herald reported Wednesday.
Jackson told reporters entering the Democratic National Convention at Boston's FleetCenter Tuesday that Boston still suffered a huge "class gap between the haves and have-nots. If you look at inner-city Boston and the suburbs, it's like there is a doughnut and then there's the doughnut hole."
The Rev. Eugene Rivers, chairman of the National Ten Points Coalition, hit back.
"Jesse's talking trash and and blowing smoke. This is Jesse's showboat," he said.
"Jesse Jackson has never, ever come to me or any of the black clergy that work on the streets of the city of Boston," Rivers said. "Jesse has been too big to actually meet with the black clergy that work in the trenches and have been doing that for years, so we are kind of mildly amused that Jesse has so much to say about something he knows so little about."
