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"Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the most courageous, outspoken critic of the civil-rights establishment in America today ... Character is the most important word in Rev. Peterson's vocabulary."Or so reads Peterson's bio on his own website. Indeed, there are few other words he uses with such frequency or so flagrantly as "character." Insisting that it is not racism but lack of moral character that causes the problems of African-Americans, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson proclaims himself "this generation's Booker T. Washington."Although he may not make history in quite the same way, there is no doubt that Peterson, like Washington, will be remembered for quotes that have raised the ire of much of the African American community. At the conservative student conference in summer 2005, well-documented by Campus Progress bloggers, Peterson played off the right-wing's visceral hostility to the concept of reparations for slavery: "Instead of reparations," Peterson proposed, "how 'bout a free ticket back to Africa?"Peterson wasn't always a staunch right-winger. As he told The Nation magazine earlier this year, "I was born a Democrat but I had no values; it was anything goes, whatever you want to do, and that came from the black leadership, but I finally started to examine it for myself and I realized the Democratic platform was an anti-God, anti-values, anti-American platform."According to Peterson, who was born and raised on a plantation in Alabama, he moved to LA in 1968 and "started to listen to people from the NAACP, the Reverend Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and others." Peterson describes this period of his life as a time of conflict for him, during which he was overwhelmed with anger toward white people. He blames this anger for his downward spiral into drug abuse and his reliance on the welfare system, until he had an awakening in 1990 when he discovered Jesus and Ronald Reagan, and their combined influence inspired him to form BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny. BOND was a small, poorly funded Christian center that held Sunday services, meetings and counseling both in person and over the phone. But it was enough to get Peterson on the radar of some important people -- he started making TV appearances, and eventually bought himself some airtime on the radio in Englewood, California.

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