Hey Reverend Jesse Jackson! How About A Big Tall Glass Of STFU!
I am officially 150% tired, tired, tired of Jesse Jackson! We thank for you service, but it's time to go sit down somewhere! His attack on Obama was unforgivable, hot mike or no mike! It's time for somebody black to produce the website "Jesse Jackson Does Not Speak For Me!" What in the hell was he doing on Fox News in the first damn place?
Sorry, Reverend, but don't get mad at Obama because your own moral failings prevent you from talking to your own people about fatherhood and marriage. It's not Barack Obama's fault, you cheated on your wife and produced a child outside of that marriage. Obama has the Karl Roves of the world to worry about, he should not have to be worried about your crabs in the barrel backsides!
You embarrassed Obama, you embarrassed your son, and you embarrassed yourself. Time to stop talking!
Update: Check out my blog sista, Tami, at What Tami Said for her take on this mess.
9 comments:
I said almost the exact same thing about Jesse today. But why do the 'others' assume he speaks for me? I never assume that Limbaugh speaks for them.
Vincent
thimk.wordpress.com
I blogged about this fool as well. Honestly he needs to just sit down. This fool has no common sense. He got mad because he got called out. It isn't Obama's fault he had a baby out of wedlock with a mistress.
I am so disgusted at Jackson. It is so sad that the folks that are considered "black leadership" are putting so many daggers in Obama's back. The black community looks up to these people, and will easily sway the vote away from Obama based on anything that they say. Fine if you don't vote for him, but show him some respect because he's a black man that's possibily the next president. Oh wait, my bad...you're jealous because he's doing something YOU couldn't accomplish??? I get it--my fault!
Jackson-- you're on timeout!
Prof. Tracey,
Tell it!
I was disgusted by that remark. I'm mad that he made a cutting gesture. It's at the 0:33 mark.
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This question is for the southerners:
Have ya'll heard of Jesse referred to as "Bloody Jesse"? I just learned that from a coworker who attended Morris Brown.
Jesse Jackson is sooooo jealous. He sees African-Americans and other people of color falling in love with Obama and he's being left in the DUST. Nobody's asking Jesse to "Run, Jesse, Run" anymore!!
He and Bill Clinton need to go sulk in a corner together.
And I think we Americans need to turn down the volume on all so-called reverends this election year.
Vincent - Great point! Tanks for stopping by!
Siditty - Preach!
Sassy J - On timeout and in the corner! LOL!
Shirley - I agree completely!
Anonymiss - Thank you for explaining the gesture. I missed that!
Does anyone know the identity of the man that he was talking to?
I said I wasn't going to post on it, but I think it's worth mentioning that there are some black people who agree with Jesse's sentiments.
So sad, but true. I did post on it and I am in agreement with you that Jesse needs to sit his ass down.
He has NO MORAL authority to chastise ANYONE about ANYTHING!!!
Why Jesse’s Testy: Obama’s ‘Tough Love’ for Black Community
Welcome to the “I had no idea that was being recorded” club, Reverend Jesse Jackson! Standing room only.
On Sunday, the man who until relatively recently was the most viable black presidential candidate in the country’s history went a little off message, you could say, on the set of Fox News. Believing that his mike was off, Reverend Jackson whispered to a visibly uncomfortable Dr. Reed Tuckson that Barack Obama had been “talking down to black people” and that he desired to “cut his nuts off.” While it’s debatable as to whether Obama has been “talking down” to black people, and indeed how effective castration would be as a remedy, it’s true that Obama has frequently offered so-called “tough love” to black audiences throughout the presidential campaign. Focusing mainly on themes of education and parenting, Obama hasn’t shied away from criticizing aspects of black culture that he sees as contributing to the some of the problems the black community faces in America today:
• On Tuesday at a town-hall meeting in Georgia, Obama dismissed rapping and basketball as career aspirations: “You can’t find a job, unless you are a really, really good basketball player — which most of you brothas are not. I know you think you are, but you’re not. You are overrated in your own mind. You will not play in the NBA. You are probably not that good a rapper. Maybe you are the next Lil’ Wayne, but probably not, in which case you need to stay in school.”
• On June 15, in a Father’s Day speech in front of a predominantly black audience at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, Obama decried absentee fathers: “What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child — any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.” He also mocked the unwarranted celebrations surrounding minor educational accomplishments: “Don't get carried away with that eighth-grade graduation. You're supposed to graduate from the eighth grade!"
• On February 28, in front of a predominantly black audience in Beaumont, Texas, Obama criticized the lax nutritional standards of some parents: “Y'all have Popeyes out in Beaumont? I know some of y'all you got that cold Popeyes out for breakfast. I know. That's why y'all laughing … You can't do that. Children have to have proper nutrition. That affects also how they study, how they learn in school."
• On January 20, Martin Luther King Day, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Obama addressed prejudice in the black community: “We have scorned our gay brothers and sisters instead of embracing them. The scourge of anti-Semitism has, at times, revealed itself in our community. For too long, some of us have seen immigrants as competitors for jobs instead of companions in the fight for opportunity.”
• On July 15, 2007, at the Vernon Park Church of God in Chicago, Obama again focused on parenting: “There's a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don't love themselves. And the reason they don't love themselves is because we are not loving them enough.”
• On June 28, 2007, at a Democratic debate at Howard University, Obama discussed the relationship between homophobia in black communities and the lack of education on AIDS: “We don’t talk about this. We don’t talk about it in the schools. Sometimes we don’t talk about it in the churches. It has been an aspect of sometimes homophobia that we don’t address this issue as clearly as it needs to be.”
• In April 2007, according to the Washington Post, Obama told a group of black South Carolina state legislators: “In Chicago, sometimes when I talk to the black chambers of commerce, I say, 'You know what would be a good economic-development plan for our community would be if we make sure folks weren't throwing their garbage out of their cars.’”
• On March 4, 2007, in a speech in Selma, Alabama, Obama returned to the issues of education and parenting: “I don't know who taught them that reading and writing and conjugating your verbs was acting white, we've got to get over that mentality.”
What to make of all this? There’s no reason to believe Obama’s critical messages are anything but sincere, but they happen to be good politics as well. The black audiences at which he directs his “tough love” almost always respond with approval or applause, and his support among black voters has been rock-solid, regularly racking up 80 to 90 percent of the black vote during the Democratic primaries. Meanwhile, Obama is partaking in what’s basically tantamount to a long-running Sister Souljah campaign, demonstrating to white voters that he’s not beholden to the black community nor scapegoating whites for its ailments. So it’s ultimately a win-win. Unless Jesse Jackson gets ahold of some scissors, and then nobody wins. —Dan Amira
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