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Ron Jackson's Perspective
The Sunday Journal
Kankakee, Illinois
July 20, 2008
Jesse's a living
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His philosophy: 'Do as I tell you, not as I do'
Relying solely on my not-so-sharp-anymore memory, here goes a couple of
observations. Didn’t about a decade ago a certain Democratic
president receive spiritual guidance about infidelity from Jesse
Jackson? Wasn’t this same guidance counselor found to have
committed the same act, resulting in the birth of a child some
months later? And maybe two years ago didn’t Michael Richards, a
not-so-funny comedian, seek forgiveness and guidance from Jesse
Jackson for referring to black people by using the “N-word” in
public? Now we learn that the same Jesse Jackson has used that same
word this month.
There’s more. Dwayne “Dog” Chapman, after being recorded using
the forbidden word referring to his son’s black girlfriend also
sought out the insight of Jackson and hordes of other black public
figures. Rappers and gang-bangers were admonished by Jackson to
stop using the word because it was hateful.
We all know what happened to Bill Clinton. Richards and
Chapman lost careers. Jackson lives on.
Borrowing a line from Paul Harvey, now we know the rest of the
story. FOX News has come clean with further regretful remarks made
on their show by Jesse Jackson about Barack Obama. Besides
advocating violence by saying he wanted to cut Obama’s private parts
off, in the same recorded chat, Jackson also referred to all black
people as “N-word” plural.
Jesse Jackson’s “do as I tell you, not as I do” philosophy has
long been out of style. Our youth today especially operate on or
parrot what they see. That is part of the reason for so much
violence in certain communities across America and especially in
Chicago.
Jesse Jackson has set back all police efforts to stem the
rising tide of youth violence in Chicago. For every forward step
the Chicago Police have taken, Jackson alone has pulled them back
two steps. Every black youth in Chicago has heard of Jesse
Jackson. They have heard his cries to stop the violence and
degrading language in music. They also have now heard that he spoke
of committing violence and using a hateful word toward a fellow
black American: of all people, Barack Obama, a man who seems to
sincerely want to bridge the racial divide that traverses this
country.
How can any police force, community action group, parent,
teacher, mentor, or first black presidential nominee compete with
that? How can we expect young angry, uneducated, undisciplined kids
to adhere to a higher, more civilized code of conduct when the one
man white America has deemed their black moral leader doesn’t
subscribe to a decency standard? Jesse Jackson travels around the
world, is wealthy, and uses undesirable language. Then, why can’t a
young, poor, black kid mimic Jackson’s language and violent
inference in music to pull himself or herself out of poverty?
Should Jesse Jackson have the monopoly on making money from hate
speech?
Speaking of the first black man to climb the highest political
peak in this country, Obama cannot completely be excused of any
responsibility in the Jesse fiasco. After it was initially reported
that Jackson had made the violent comment and subsequently
apologized, Obama accepted the apology and asked that we all move
forward. However, his campaigned called the New Yorker magazine
“tasteless and offensive” for its customary satirical cover.
Obama cannot run the risk of being accused of letting offensive
behavior by blacks slide off his back while holding white offensive
behavior to a higher standard. That is the Jackson or Al Sharpton
standard operating procedure. If there were anything worse for
Obama than being accused of “acting white,” it would be being
accused of “acting Jesse or Sharpton.”
Obama has come too far on his maiden voyage where no black man
has gone before. In this historical titanic travel toward the White
House, he can’t allow the likes of a negative, resentful Jesse
Jackson to become his iceberg. |
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