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Maybe Jesse should cut off his tongue
In presidential race, what needs to be cut off is the racist talk from Jesse Jackson and others
By Donnie Johnston
Date published: 7/18/2008
SEN. BARACK Obama's bid to become America's first black president is hitting some unexpected stumbling blocks.
Members of his own race seem to be doing everything they can to derail his candidacy.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's ex-pastor, was first up. The press had a field day with several remarks that came out during a heated sermon and made the Chicago pastor out to be a raving hate-monger, which I am sure he is not.
Obama subsequently distanced himself from Wright, but then along came the Rev. Jesse Jackson with his now infamous off-air remarks during the recent taping of a Fox News show.
Jackson's comment that he would like to cut off part of Obama's anatomy has been played and replayed over TV and the Internet.
When Obama began to feel that this crisis was cooling off, Fox admitted that Jackson used the N-word to refer to members of his own race when he described how Obama was talking down to black people and telling them how to behave.
The N-word! My goodness! If I used that word in this column--even to quote the good reverend--both Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton, that self-appointed spokesman for all blacks, would be outside this newspaper's office before the ink was dry on the first paper to roll off the press.
The public use of that word would automatically label any white person as a racist and would bring the user's career--whatever it happened to be--to an abrupt end.
So why is Jackson allowed to utter it and, after issuing a small apology, all is forgiven? Why is Sharpton not calling for Jackson's immediate and unconditional firing--from whatever it is Jackson does?
Since the beginning of his candidacy, I have heard no white person speak badly of Barack Obama because of his race. In fact, if you will remember, Obama beat out a white woman for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Now, don't try to tell me that all those millions of votes came just from black people! White Americans, in large part, have put Obama one step away from the White House because they have both respect for and faith in the man, no matter what his color.
Then Jesse Jackson uses the N-word and threatens to pull out his castrating knife. Such remarks are not going to sit well with some white voters.
Date published: 7/18/2008
Most recent reader comments:
Where is Al Crapton
(posted by
lifetimelocal
, July 18, 2008 10:15 pm)
He was all over Imus about nappy heads. Why isn't he after Jesse. Oh! That's right, he's black.
You are right THEOBC
(posted by
Mandrake
, July 18, 2008 8:10 pm)
but ALL americans need to become color blind and stop making money from racism and stop looking back to the day the first slaver set foot in america;real slavery still happens all over the globe and IT needs attention not slavery that ended 143 years ago and the clan which is now a joke and nothing else
JACKSON, SHARPTON, IMUS, LIMBAUGH, BECK - ARE ALL PUSHING THEIR OWN AGENDA - STOP FALLING FOR IT
(posted by
theobc
, July 18, 2008 5:07 pm)
i trust you no why the "n-word" is a no-no for whites, but some blacks still say it. duh! obama didn't create why defines a black person, that my friend was decreed by white america long ago and it is one drop of black blood makes a person black and nothing has been done to change that in all these years. Jackson and Sharpton have only the power that the press gives them. when limbaugh or Imus speaks no one thinks they speak for all of white america. Jackson & Sharpton speak for Jackson & Sharpton. PERIOD
Double standard.....
(posted by
roth74va
, July 18, 2008 1:50 pm)
Jesse Jackson is a joke, I knew that when he ridiculed Bill Clinton for Lewinsky, then several months later it comes to light he is paying for illegitimate children of his own. The use of the N-word has always been a double standard, ok for blacks, but a "no-no" for whites. Racism isn't going away, just get used to it.
Jesse ...The Real Dark Knight?
(posted by
Ranko
, July 18, 2008 10:32 am)
Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton are out of the loop for any american black or white. Jesse wants you to believe that he has his finger on the pulse of black america but he's so far removed he can't find himself as he proved with his latest comments. If I said what he did at my job they'd fire me in a minute but then again nobody takes Jesse Jackson serious anymore do they?
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