Have Reverend Jackson and Pastor Dobson jumped the shark?
I'm glad Jesse Jackson apologized for his inappropriate language and that he's trying to do a bit of damage control. I know the media love dishing dirt and all this colorful talk (or in Jackson's case, "off color") of fruitcake and nuts, but like James Dobson before him, Jesse Jackson doesn't speak for me.read more | digg story
Zennie, you are absolutely right. I honestly think that Jesse Jackson and the host of the religious conservative constituency that have taken the reigns of civil rights and social issues of this country, are in a time warp. I am grateful for what it is that Jackson has done for our people, but I have a hard time trying to point to bullet points of what it was he has exactly done. I would say he has become famous by association since the death of MLK and has been clutching to stay in the limelight ever since. His comments have only underlined what he has made his agenda deep down and behind closed doors. It is already bad enough that he thinks that the faith-based community makes up all of the Black community, but then to be so two-faced in a way I haven't seen since Bob Johnson's shucking and jiving earlier this year, just distances him further from understanding by my generation.
ReplyDeleteI posted a video on YouTube as a response to the low-class comments Mr. Jackson made and received considerable feedback. What surprised me was the myriad of backgrounds of the people who are from both sides of the color line who have felt that Jackson misrepresents the community of Blacks in America. What has made so many of us grasp on to the hope and higher possibility in the message of Obama, Jackson has frustrated and made us shake our head in shame. It is old behavior we are trying to see past, while this "relic" continues to remind us how much further we have to go.
I wasn't really prepared to dismiss Mr. Jackson's comments point blank. Yet, upon seeing the swift criticism by HIS OWN SON, who is likely in a position to be frank, open and honest on a constant basis with Jesse, I thought this sort of condemnation by a man's son does not happen over night or all at once, but must have been the straw that broke the camel's back. I doubt it was the first time such comments were made by Mr. Jackson (think 1984, pertaining to New York and an SNL mocking of the event by Eddie Murphy), but it is certainly one of the few times Mr. Jackson has been caught saying what he feels truly in his heart. Those same feelings, I am quite sure are what led him to contradict the very moral grounds he claims to stand on, as foundation to his profession.