More About that Jesse Jackson Hot Mic Moment

Wake up America,black is black and white is white and never the twain should meet. Double standards are every where. Just listen to Whoopie, Sharpton, Jackson, Rangel, Walters and of course now the Obama's. Political correctness has now gone from the aim of equality to BLACK dictation of how we can speak and act. I thought the "N" word was ceramoniously burried a few years ago, I guess just in a white cemetary, because it's alive and well in the black world! Again, "wake up Whitey" (thats what Michelle calls you) or the next thing to be burried will be you!!!

Well, Michael Richards has just been vindicated! Civil rights just went backwards 100 years! And Jesse should have specifically apologized to the AA Community - not to the Obamas.

Imus lost his job. Any hope that Jesse will. ? from Bernard Clark...

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As much as I'd like to see that happen too.. Jesse Jackson is an extortionist and thus can only be put out of business by his victims.

Unfortunately these companies decided long ago that it is better for their bottom line to pay off the "reverend" and give him his jizya than to do the right thing and put put up a fight!

Please, let's be real. The Reverend is above the rest of us (black and white) with reference to integrity, honesty, and morality. Why should he appologize? Because he got caught. If we had not heard "off mike- hot mike", would he still be saying it. Of course! It's what he wanted - freedom and he's exercising it.

Imus lost his job. Any hope that Jesse will. ? from Bernard Clark...

I couldn't agree more! Talk about a double standard. Were is all the controversy now and people that should be up in arms? There really are two standards.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. When anyone insists on speaking like a racist, then they are saying that they wish they could be like them. Why can’t someone like Rev. Jackson and many others in the Black community understand this simple fact? As a white person, I have been careful not to use this word my whole life. How about imitating people like myself for a change. Meanwhile, I will keep hope alive.

Jesse Jackson has proven himslef to be irrelevent. And Barack Obama will not and should not be cow-towing to the African American community. I am a black man and I say that Obama is running for President of all the people and not just certain people. If he wanted to cater to his own and ignore a huge swath of the population he would be running as a Republican......ZING!!!!

Where is the outrage from the black community? This should be a wakeup call to people.

It's easy to see how this will work well for the Republicans. Obama played the race card with Clinton. Now he is forced to hold that hot potato while McCain is free to talk about energy, economics and foreign policy.

No amount of mainstream programming or press gerrymandering is going to make a significant part of the population accept guilt as the dominating issue in this election. It is a negative emotional vector. The electorate pulls away from it. Every time a mainstream media outlet runs a special on this topic, the Republicans will get more silent support. Polls won't tell the story. My guess is this is the real reason the numbers are what they are. Obama's campaign is losing lift to the tailwind, not gaining it.

Axelrod and Plouffe blew it by too narrowly focusing on the elite perception of the image they are crafting and not understanding how the emotional dynamics in the heartland actually work with regard to historical inheritance.

Aun wrote:
... Jackson has not been a real voice for black people in decades. No one under the age of 50 really respects him. What I would love to see is some people or a organization like the absent NAACP represent black America. He needs to go home and take care of his illegit. CHILD. Talk about real issues..
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Couldn't agree with you more. Jesse Jackson has built a career on victimization - Obama has proven otherwise.

I don't, however, agree with you however that you call the child "illegit." We have to stop that stigmatization of an innocent person.

Wonder who has done more or will do more for the AA community.

Obama is too busy kissing up to get white voters--and then there is reelection.

If 99% of you were "hot miked" you would knock yourselves off your self-riteous soapboxes.

Ralph Garner | Jul 16, 2008 10:15:09 PM
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Ralph great post...there are no "great" men, presidential or otherwise! NONE!

I wonder what Jeremiah Wright would say to Jesse Jackson about this? Hmmmmm.

Posted by: Pineapple | Jul 17, 2008 4:34:48 AM

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Oh he will say God is at fault , but he loves stupid people, he made so many of them!

jesse jackson is a hypocrit and full of crap

So let me get this, Jesse wanted this word banned from our language, comes after Imus for what he says, then turns around and uses this word within his own circle? WOW!

I'm not surprised as much by the hypocrisy as I am about how careless Jackson was to even utter those words near a mic, On Air or Off. Politics is a game of gotcha, and he of all people should know not to be so reckless.

I wonder what Jeremiah Wright would say to Jesse Jackson about this? Hmmmmm.

I think this has much to do about nothing, let’s stay on message.

Obama 08’

We've always known there is a double standard here, so what's all the fuss?
I do think Jesse Jackson should take a long vacation, and make a career change when he gets back. I'm just glad he came out of hiding. He and Sharpton were laying low until Obama nailed the nom. Rev. Wright too...came out for a inute then someone locked him up in his mansion and threatened him NOT to come out until after Nov. Too bad...I think he would be more entertaining than Jackson and Sharpton...and he is certainly more connected to Obama. When is he going to go on a book tour and come out for the press?