Rev. Jesse Jackson, umwe mu bayobozi bakomeye baharaniye uburenganzira bwa muntu muri Leta Zunze Ubumwe za Amerika ndetse wigeze kwiyamamariza kuyobora igihugu inshuro ebyiri, yitabye Imana ku wa 17 Gashyantare 2026 afite imyaka 84.
Umuryango we watangaje ko uyu mukozi w’Imana wo mu itorero ry’Ababatisita yitabye Imana mu gitondo cyo ku wa Kabiri, asize umugore we, abana batandatu n’abuzukuru benshi.
Mu itangazo umuryango washyize ahagaragara, bavuze ko yari “umuyobozi wakoreraga abandi,” utari uw’umuryango gusa, ahubwo n’uw’abarengana, abatavuga n’abirengagizwa ku isi hose. Basabye ko umurage we wakomeza kubahwa binyuze mu gukomeza guharanira ubutabera, uburinganire n’urukundo yaharaniraga.
Rev. Jamal Bryant, umushumba mukuru wa New Birth Missionary Baptist Church muri Georgia, yavuze ko Jackson yari intwari ye, ashimangira ko kuva akiri muto yifuzaga kumwigana kubera ishyaka n’intego yagiraga mu guharanira impinduka.
Jesse Louis Jackson yavukiye i Greenville, muri South Carolina, ku wa 8 Ukwakira 1941. Yakuze arerwa n’umubyeyi umwe, ariko aza kuba umunyeshuri w’indashyikirwa.
Mu 1964 yabonye impamyabumenyi ya mbere muri sociologie muri North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. Yaje gukomereza amasomo muri Chicago Theological Seminary, aho yanahawe impamyabumenyi y’icyubahiro.
Yinjiye mu bikorwa byo guharanira uburenganzira bwa muntu mu gihe Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. yageraga i Chicago gutangiza ishami ryo mu majyaruguru ry’umuryango wa Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Nubwo King yamushimaga ku kazi yakoraga, hari igihe bombi batumvikanaga ku cyerekezo cy’umuryango. Icyakora baje kwiyunga mbere y’uko King yicwa ku wa 4 Mata 1968 i Memphis, aho Jackson yari kumwe na we.
Nk’uko King yari umupasiteri w’Umubatisita, na Jackson ni ko yari ameze. Mu 1971 yavuye muri SCLC ashinga umuryango People United to Save Humanity (PUSH), wari ugamije guteza imbere ubukungu n’uburenganzira bw’Abanyamerika b’Abirabura.
Mu 1984 yashinze National Rainbow Coalition, nyuma iza guhuzwa na PUSH mu myaka ya 1990, biba Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Yanashinze Wall Street Project igamije guteza imbere amahirwe y’ubukungu ku banyamuryango b’amoko atishoboye.
Mu 1984 no mu 1988, Jackson yiyamamarije guhagararira Ishyaka ry’Abademokarate mu matora ya perezida. Nubwo atabashije gutsinda, kwiyamamaza kwe kwabaye amateka kuko mbere ya 1984 nta Munyamerika w’Umwirabura wari warigeze atangiza ku mugaragaro urugamba rukomeye rwo kuyobora igihugu.
Mu 1988 yiyamamarije ku rwego rwo hejuru kurushaho, asenya imyumvire yari isanzweho ku bakandida b’iperereza rya perezida.
Mu 2001, Jackson yemeye ko yagiranye umubano wihariye n’umukozi wa Rainbow/PUSH, bituma abyara umwana hanze y’urugo. Yatangaje ko yemera amakosa yakoze kandi asaba imbabazi, aniyemeza gutanga ubufasha bwose bukenewe ku mwana.
Mu 2013, umuhungu we Jesse Louis Jackson Jr., wabaye umwe mu bagize Inteko Ishinga Amategeko, yemeye icyaha cyo kunyereza amafaranga y’amatora agera ku 750,000 by’amadolari, akatirwa igifungo cy’amezi 30.
Mu Gushyingo 2017, Jackson yatangaje ko arwaye indwara ya Parkinson, indwara yibasira ubwonko n’imitsi. Mu 2025 kandi byatangajwe ko yanasanzwemo Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, indwara ifitanye isano na Parkinson kandi igira ingaruka ku kugenda no kuvuga.
Kubera ibibazo by’ubuzima, yagabanyije ibikorwa byo kwitabira inama n’ibikorwa rusange. Icyakora, mu 2024 yari intumwa ihagarariye Illinois mu nama nkuru y’Ishyaka ry’Abademokarate (Democratic National Convention), aho yahawe icyubahiro n’abari bayitabiriye. Yagaragaye ku rubyiniro ari mu kagare k’abafite ubumuga, asuhuza imbaga y’abantu bamwakiraga.
Rev. Jesse Jackson asize amateka akomeye mu guharanira uburenganzira bwa muntu, uburinganire n’amahirwe angana kuri bose. Yabaye umwe mu baharaniye ko Abanyamerika b’Abirabura n’andi matsinda atishoboye bahabwa ijambo n’amahirwe mu buyobozi no mu bukungu.
Nubwo ubuzima bwe butabaye ubutunganye, umurage we mu guharanira ubutabera n’uburinganire wagize uruhare rukomeye mu mateka ya politiki n’imibereho muri Amerika. Umuryango we wasabye ko abantu bazamwibuka bakomeza urugamba rwo guharanira indangagaciro yaharaniraga: ubutabera, uburinganire n’urukundo.
Iki gihe, Rev. Jesse Jackson yitabiriye umunsi wa mbere w’Inama Nkuru y’Ishyaka ry’Abademokarate yabereye kuri United Center ku wa 19 Kanama 2024, i Chicago muri Leta ya Illinois.
