Comments on: Jesse Jackson Renews Some Blacks' Concerns

Washington Post: Some Activists Have Been Unhappy About Critiques Of Problems In The Black Community

[karencwallac]

Obama speaks down to AAs as well as perpetrates and reinforces false stereotypes about them. There are far too many examples.(http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/07/why_jesses_testy_obamas_tough.html )
During this campaign I''ve closely followed and read many of the blogs. Posters%u2019 comments and media reaction confirm that racism is alive and that whites believe the many false stereotypes that have been applied to the entire AA race. AAs have heard these stereotypes so often that many believe these myths which have become their reality. AAs don''t have jobs, etc. largely due to institutionalized racism and their stereotypic portrayal makes it easy to place the blame on them in order to justify their condition and alleviate guilt. Obama takes the AA vote for granted and to gain white conservative votes he often criticizes AAs (for the world to hear), which I find morally reprehensible. He stereotypes an entire race for political onvenience. He also knows that the symbolism he represents to the AA community causes AAs not to complain or demand and that he will not lose AA support although he continuously insults them. He would not dare pronounce such harsh judgments against other demographics. If he promoted stereotypes regarding Jews, women, whites, ***, etc. he would be crucified(metaphorically speaking). Jackson is being vilified for uttering the truth!

[tibu987]

There is another major difference between Obama and Jackson, Sharpton, and Walters.
Obama is intelligent and the others are not.
Simple as that.

[tibu987]

Wow! Obama speaks the truth to Blacks and the panderers jump on him.
Same thing happened to Bill Cosby.
Apparently many Blacks do not want to hear the truth and prefer the double-speak of Jackson and Sharpton who are only looking out for themselves.
And so it goes.

[kansas1946]

Walters said that "we''''re not electing him to be preacher in chief," and that Obama needs to give more speeches about how he would help black communities.

Translation: The black community doesn''''t want advice from their leaders. They just want to know how much free money Obama''''s going to give them.

Do I understand you right, Mr Walters?



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Posted by CiitzenUSA at 05:32 PM : Jul 11, 2008
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I think you got it right. Obama is showing black Americans something different. That is is possible for ANYONE to achieve in this country, and it is possible for ANYONE to be president. That is a new message and one that cuts into Mr. Jesse''s power base and he don''t like it.

[kansas1946]

The larger point of Jesse L. Jackson''s criticism of Barack Obama -- if not the crude way he expressed it -- touched a nerve among some African American political activists who have been unhappy about the senator ''s pointed critiques of absentee fathers and other problems in the black community.

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If these black "activists" are really critical of a person pointing out some obvious issues in urban black communities, then they are not truly tring to improve the lives of their constituants. They are hurting them. If they don''t like Obama and his message of personal responsibility where possible, then they just need to support McCain. Jesse Jackson is part of the problem, not part of the solutition.

[ciitzenusa]

Walters said that "we''re not electing him to be preacher in chief," and that Obama needs to give more speeches about how he would help black communities.

Translation: The black community doesn''t want advice from their leaders. They just want to know how much free money Obama''s going to give them.

Do I understand you right, Mr Walters?

[ciitzenusa]

"...touched a nerve among some African American political activists who have been unhappy about the senator ''s pointed critiques of absentee fathers and other problems in the black community."
Ya GOT to be kidding, right???
Gee, maybe if we didnt have like 60% of black kids growing up without fathers around then Obama wouldn''t have to make critical speeches.
When black people start taking responsibility for making babies and their parenting skills, the rest of us will have a lot less to criticize. Until then, if the shoe fits, wear it.

[aldon61]

Jackson is no longer politically relevant. Obama doesn''t really "need" his endorsement and should just ignore this fool.

[minuteman-1]

Jesse Jacknife renews some black''s concerns

How about all of America''s concerns about the Obamination

[medmom04]

---"For the sake of education and true enlightenment, an interesting study in human behavior would be in the making if Barack gave that SAME speech on absent parents to a white audience....."---
Posted by noprejudice

hmmmm fascinating. would white reverends come out, state Barack is not addressing ALL the issues in this one speech that relates to white folks, threaten Barack physically as Jesse did, & miss the entire fact in their indignant verbal uprising that white fathers are also absentee tooo much??? Take one large county, where the welfare load is over one million families strong. Any welfare case opened for a single parent family results in a case opening against the absent parent to repay the welfare system for taking care of the absent parent''s children, as the absent parent clearly is not doing. So one million cases strong, urban county, do you think African American fathers are the majority of absent parents? the answer is no. it is not a race-specific lack-of-accountability.