The Weekly Standard also notes that Jesse Jackson has been known to call hunger strikes one day and show up at banquets the next day. After refusing solids a few years back on behalf of Haitian immigrants or California grape workers, Jackson would allow someone else to take over the responsibility for his fast while he went off to eat. Jackson referred to this practice as "passing the cross" down "the chain of suffering."
Similarly, NBA center Olden Polynice announced a hunger strike, to protest detainment of HIV-infected Haitian immigrants, that would allow him to eat only on game days. That lasted until his team got a five-day rest.
