The senior pastor of Harlem’s Canaan Baptist Church has chastised the
Rev. Jesse Jackson for inviting television news crews into his church to
cover a sermon despite an agreement not to do so.
An article by Peter J.
Boyer due to appear in Monday’s edition of the New Yorker claims
that the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker extracted a promise from Jackson to keep
the service closed to the press and to show penance for fathering an
illegitimate child.
Instead, the article said, the service was broadcast
live and Jackson never mentioned the child.
In a letter to Jackson,
excerpted by the New Yorker, Rev. Walker wrote: “Your addiction
to the need of media attention seems to be fatal and you have fallen
into the practice of using people for your advantage and personal
aggrandizement.”
