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12 months ago

in Sunday Open Thread on Jack and Jill Politics
Maybe Jesse Has a Point

http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx071208
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taritac He does. This woman's comment I thought particularly cogent:
I live on an Indian Reservation so I have some experience with the "targeting" of communities based on racial stereotypes. Would Obama dare feel free to lecture Native Americans about absentee fathers or garbage?... Or give the same speeches in Appalachia? My point is that these are NOT issues based on the color of one's skin, but rather on socio-economic circumstances.

That is why Jesse Jackson is RIGHT and Obama is WRONG. Jackson recognizes the plight of all poor communities. Notably two decades ago Jackson campaigned extensively in West Virginia during the 1988 Presidential primaries, so he saw firsthand how poor white people live. Whereas, Obama deigned to visit West Virginia only once and momentarily. That exemplifies the difference between Jackson and Obama. Jackson is a proven humanist, but Obama is becoming known as an opportunist. Obama uses the black community for his own political purposes, and that includes pandering to white voters by lecturing to blacks about their shortcomings... all for media consumption.

12 months ago

in With Friends Like These…… on Jack and Jill Politics
Maybe Jesse has a point

http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx071208
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CraigHickman Maybe Jesse doesn't have a point.

But the writer of that article certainly does.

And using hearsay to make it.

Yawn.
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kenyaw booboola,
You can't be serious.

12 months ago

in Saturday Open Thread on Jack and Jill Politics
Don't you ever get tired of playing the "angry black man/woman" role? Barack has certainly moved beyond your slave mentality and many Black folks have. Take control of your life, get an education and stop playing the victim. The Man only controls you only as much as you let him
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