what jesse jackson shows us about being black in america

so... jesse jackson wants to cut Barack Obama's nuts off. perhaps i should be offended that these comments about the first black human being to have a viable chance at the presidency "slipped" out of the mouth of a so called black leader, whose own attempt at the presidency, coincidentally, wasn't so viable. hmmm... nope. that's not what this feeling is. Maybe I should just agree with jessie. i mean... just who does this "elitist" black man (who just so happened to have grown up without his father and still managed to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard Law) think he is going to black churches telling black people to be moral and take responsibility for themselves? bill cosby? naaah... i don't feel that way either. in a nutshell, i am ashamed of how our so called black leaders have been acting. jesse does not speak for the black people that i know but unfortunately he does show a side of "what it's like to be black in america" that you probably won't see on the cnn special.

first of all, i just want to point out how utterly irresponsible it was for jackson to go on foxnews, the o'reilly factor nonetheless, and make this blunder. fox is just going to replay it over and over again as an example of how black people don't support each other, so why should america? fox's biases aside, why don't jessie and his cronies support Obama? because he's black. simple as that.

i know it sounds bad, but it's about 85% true: black people don't support black people. And I'm not talking about my daddy's blind support of any movie that has black people in it, or your insistence on watching bet (don't lie; you know you do). When it counts we are not there for each other. We don't go to black owned businesses because they feel like they can over charge us. We don't support black communities because we don't want to deal with "niggas." We won't support a black man running for president of this country because he thinks he's better than us and he's tryna be white. Foolishness right?

jesse was unhappy with the way barack "talk[s] down on black people" by going to churches and "talking about morals." what the fuck is he talking about? we can't talk about morals? i mean even if barack walked in that mug and said, "all you niggas is immoral," who the hell is jesse jackson to be telling anybody what to say about morals. this man who has been riding on the coattails of his dead homie for 40 years, who should be worried about his child support payments for his illigitimate child, who has already said stuff he's had retract??? who told him he was in charge of protecting all black people?

what's wrong with someone coming in and saying "black people need to do better?" people criticize cosby and say he should have used a different forum etc, etc, but really i have NO problem with anything he said nor where he said it and who he said it in front of. i don't know exactly what barack said, but i know it wasn't offensive, nothing black people can't take hearing, nothing he should be castrated for.

honestly if things change too much in this country jesse and them would be out of business. God forbid a black person decides to take action instead of take part in a march. Oh no, don't tell the nigga that he has a mind of his own and that he doesn't have to sit on the block and blame the man for him not taking care of business. please don't tell the little black boy to pull up his pants and go to class. don't tell him to be open minded, articulate and goal oriented. and oh gosh, PLEASE don't tell our little black girls not to have babies every year from the time they turn 16 till they hit drinking age. don't tell them that they're beautiful without weave and acrylic and slutty clothes. don't explain to their parents that it's more important to own property than it is to lease a navigator. just continue to feed us bullshit in every way possible: "hell date," "tip drill," lean, and the almighty big mac.

the last thing i want barack to do is stand up and become a champion for black people. please don't take that the wrong way. there's nothing wrong with him acknowledging that he's black, giving his wife dap on stage, and then turning around and enjoying an arugula salad with some wine or some shit. i want him to be him AND our president. i want a president who wants to make our country better so that my kids don't have to sit around and worry about "what it means to be black in america." it would be nice if jesse and his people could sit back and see the bigger picture. forget that a lot of their payoffs come from the clintons and see what we could be if we go in a different direction.

it would be nice, but it ain't necessary. i don't look to jesse jackson for my guidance. i could care less who he supports. i don't care about his comment or his apology. we've known all along that they wouldn't fully support obama. but that's ok. I DO.