By sticking his foot in his mouth Jesse Jackson makes the case, yet again, for the new generation of black leadership we’ve got in this country – Barack Obama, Corey Booker, Deval Patrick, Adrian Fenty, and more.
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He denies making the comment.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/19/153940/573
More here.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2007/09/19/politics/horserace/entry3274430.shtml
Do you agree with him on Obama’s response about Jena?
I applaud your jettisoning of Race Baiter Jackson (and Sharpton too, I hope), but Deval and Barack are kind of light weights. You’ve got to hope for more than just “Hope” and “Together We Can”. Bill Cosby comes to mind or Colin Powell.
Whether or not Jackson said it, it seems like it still shows some significant problems in this country…
I don’t know that Bill Cosby’s the answer to claims that others are “too white,” but he does deserve at least a little credit for using his reputation to say something interesting.
Deval, a leader? Methinks you dream. He just announced a plan to build at least three casinos in the small state of Massachusetts, claiming that the economic benefit will be huge. And what does he base these claims on? Studies that he had done on public expense…that he refuses to release to public inspection. He was a useful dry run for Team Obama, but he’s no leader.
Saying someone is, ‘acting white’ is one of the most racist statements you can make. However, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt if he says he didn’t say it, (and assuming to recordings surface).
Casinos work pretty good – ask Nevada.
Casinos work pretty good – ask Nevada.
I was in Las Vegas yesterday on business, and I have to go back next week. The casino business has fallen off, and they are looking desperately to re-establish it in the face of dozens of Indian casinos that keep Californians from having to leave home. Foreclosures are skyrocketing.
Atlantic City has been devastated by the casinos. Wander a few blocks from the beach, and you enter a war zone.
Like churches, casinos prey on the weak, promising something they never have to deliver, in exchange for hard earned money. I am so disgusted by this that I refuse to support it even at the lowest level.
Three days in Vegas, and I didn’t gamble a cent, didn’t drop a single quarter in a slot machine.
I’ve never bought a lottery ticket either. I make my money the old fashioned way
and I don’t expect sudden, undeserved riches.
On the subject of Rev. Jackson: all my employees are Black, and they don’t come from the ‘burbs. Some years ago Rev. Jackson marched across the Golden Gate Bridge in some political statement, eagerly joined by members of the local Black community, including several of my friends/employees.
They won’t join him again. Rev. Jackson wanted nothing to do with them other than to use them as a backdrop.