What is
The Finger of God?
Story from Jesse Jackson Jr.
After serving seventeen years in Congress, I pled guilty to using my campaign funds inappropriately and spent 30 months in a federal prison. I was embarrassed and full of shame, blame, and guilt. I accepted responsibility for my actions and completed my time, however, it was while in federal prison that I experienced the weight of shame, blame, and guilt on the lives of every human being in the system. In prison I developed a radical empathy for people that live in the margins of our society. I stand at the back of a very long line of 68 million debt paid felons waiting for societal forgiveness from our (SBG). My research confirms that our right to forgiveness is in the Constitution as its cornerstone. Pardons and forgiveness are not just for friends, family, and people of the politically connected that can afford to build a campaign to rally for their redemption.
In prison as a result of helping inmates fill out pardon applications, I was placed for three days in solitary confinement and accused of organizing in prison. While in solitary confinement, I made a discovery about the theology of the founding fathers that they embedded in the Constitution of the United States. Beyond states’ rights, I believe my discovery will solve the problem of life long felonization for federal and State offenders. The Finger of God confirms that we are not outside of the grace of God in America. The founders placed forgiveness in the Constitution for all people and their families that have served their time, people that have done what the judge and jury said do; and therefore, allowing those struggling with shame, blame, and guilt to start anew.
Writing The Finger of God has been a painstaking journey to expose what the founders of our great nation hid in the Constitution to ensure we could complete the experiment of constructing a more perfect union. Today there are more than 68 million debt paid citizens that can rally around my discovery and ensure our Constitution works for all that fall short and need to start over.
I understand the founders' imperfections, however something deeply buried in their theology allowed them to construct a document for our nation because they recognized human imperfection. The United States Constitution as constructed by the founders recognizes that we need to have forgiveness from our family, our religious institutions, our communities, and our legal system. I hope my findings will create the dialogue to help us to begin again.