Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized with food poisoning.

The 66-year-old faux civil rights “leader” entered Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Wednesday after complaining of severe stomach pains.

He was diagnosed with viral gastroenteritis and severe dehydration.

So-called “civil rights leader” Jesse Jackson talks the 2008 Democratic Convention, the N-word, and Barack Obama’s “nuts” with Essence Magazine September 2008.

ESSENCE.COM: You make a good point about the job of the civil rights community. But many younger African-Americans have been complaining that the old guard civil rights leaders focus too much on African-Americans as victims rather than moving the race forward. What do you think about this point of view?
JACKSON: This “old guard, new guard” is an unhealthy division. Politics must be inter-generational. You need Barack on the one hand to talk, you need Charlie Rangel, chair of House Ways & Means [Committee], and John Conyers, chair of our House Judiciary [Committee]. In politics you grow by adding and multiplying, not by subtracting and dividing. So “old guard vs. new guard” is not a healthy combination. The reality is that we achieved the right to vote, we achieved freedom, but we didn’t achieve equality, and that is the remaining civil rights work.

ESSENCE.COM: Are you going to reach out to some in the younger generation to make them feel that you are relevant?
JACKSON: All you really can do is continue to serve. Who’s relevant and heroism is a matter of perception. You might take a certain hip-hop magazine—they should not say ESSENCE is not relevant; it’s just different. The divide is not the key to growth. The key to politics is growth, and if there’s growth, everybody wins.

Read Jackson’s Full Interview With Essence Here

Religious hypocrite Jesse Jackson has been shamed for the second time in a week after FOX News confirmed on Wednesday that the civil rights activist used the racial slur “nigger” during his “Obama’s Nuts” rant on the network nearly two weeks ago.

“I am deeply saddened and distressed by the pain and sorrow that I have caused as a result of my hurtful words. I apologize again to Senator Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, their children as well as to the American public,” Jackson said in a written statement. “There really is no justification for my comments and I hope that the Obama family and the American public will forgive me. I also pray that we, as a nation, can move on to address the real issues that affect the American people.”

The World reacts to Jesse Jackson’s threat to cut Barack Obama’s “nuts” off.

Following an interview on Fox News on Sunday, Jackson said: “See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith based … I want cut his nuts off … Barack … he’s talking down to black people.”

In his public apology on Wednesday, the Rainbow/Push Coalition boss explained his actions, saying:

“I was in a conversation with a fellow guest on Sunday. He asked about Barack’s speeches lately at the black churches. I said he comes down as speaking down to black people.”

“Well, they were hurtful and wrong, that’s the whole point…And when you make mistakes you should not equivocate. You should be quick to go into offensive and not try to be evasive. And if it was said to him personally or in some public forum it would be even more hurtful. In this case, my error was responding to a question before a live mic. And so when he does hear them they will not be helpful; they will be hurtful. We have a relationship that can survive this.”