Jesse Jackson: Obama "acting like he's white"

[LondonGooner 0]

what jj is hinting at is that obama is an oreo.......which always starts a brawl.

In England if a black person is accused of acting white then he is called a coconut. Very un-PC, obviously but funny for it's inventiveness.

If Obama had been the first to rush down to Jena and walk at the head of the march then he would have been accused of jumping on the band-wagon and he doesn't need to do that because that is exactely what Hillary does.

Why can't people just be people and get over the whole black-white thing? To keep talking of racism is to only perpetuate it.

[Heracles 417]

what jj is hinting at is that obama is an oreo.......which always starts a brawl.

In England if a black person is accused of acting white then he is called a coconut. Very un-PC, obviously but funny for it's inventiveness.

If Obama had been the first to rush down to Jena and walk at the head of the march then he would have been accused of jumping on the band-wagon and he doesn't need to do that because that is exactely what Hillary does.

Why can't people just be people and get over the whole black-white thing? To keep talking of racism is to only perpetuate it.

To many people are profiteering from playing the race card so I cannot see it happening for a while.

[Heracles 417]

PS: Booyah - reverse discrimination is very much in existance in the US of A.

There's no such thing as 'reverse'...it's plain ol straightforward discrimination and racism.

reverse discrimination

n. Discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, especially when resulting from policies established to correct discrimination against members of a minority or disadvantaged group.

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Speaking of this:

Kriegel: Isiah's racial double standard

Isiah Thomas' video-taped deposition, played the other day in a federal courtroom, contained a curiously phrased denial. When asked if a white male Knicks executive had referred to a black female Knicks executive as a "######," Thomas became vehement, certain that it could not have happened under his watch.

Forget team policy, he said: "It would have violated my code of conduct ... A white man calling a black woman a ###### ... That is a problem for me."

But a black man calling a black woman a ###### — just one of the offensive terms Thomas himself is alleged to have used in addressing the plaintiff — is somewhat less offensive in his estimation. "Not as much," said Thomas. "I'm sorry to say. I do make a distinction."

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/7245784?MSNHPHMA

[Fandango 1,439]

PS: Booyah - reverse discrimination is very much in existance in the US of A.

There's no such thing as 'reverse'...it's plain ol straightforward discrimination and racism.

reverse discrimination

n. Discrimination against members of a dominant or majority group, especially when resulting from policies established to correct discrimination against members of a minority or disadvantaged group.

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Post all the definitions you want....attaching 'reverse' to it makes the term somewhat racist....

[Sheriff Uling 3]

JJ is a chop, no one here has said otherwise,.,,

I don't feel as if JJ is a chop. However, he is extremely out of line in his representation of Obama. Maybe JJ is jealous because Obama has managed to run a better campaign than JJ ever could. I still have a ton of respect for JJ but his was very disrespectful and out of line in his comment. IMO.

Cheers!!!

Sheriff Uling

[garya505 2]

JJ is from my home area, and I really liked him way back when he fought for justified causes. Now, it seems he has lost touch with fairness and reality, and always fights on one side regardless of the merits or truth.

[panamania79 2]

Jackson sharply criticized presidential hopeful and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for “acting like he’s white” in what Jackson said has been a tepid response to six black juveniles’ arrest on attempted-murder charges in Jena, La. Jackson, who also lives in Illinois, endorsed Obama in March, according to The Associated Press.

“If I were a candidate, I’d be all over Jena,” Jackson said after an hour-long speech at Columbia’s historically black Benedict College.

“Jena is a defining moment, just like Selma was a defining moment,” said the iconic civil rights figure, who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1965 Selma civil rights movement and was with King at his 1968 assassination.

http://www.thestate.com/local/v-print/story/177514.html

All I can say is that these two need to hang it up.We need some new leaders in the Black community.