Seriously, who cares?
I’ll spare you the anti-Jesse Jackson rant, seeing as my brothers from another mother khal and Enigmatik have already done a fine job of putting Uncle Jesse in his place.
For the uninitiated, I’m referring to Jesse Jackson’s remarks that he’d like to castrate Obama, because the brother was “talking down to black people” with his faith-based program suggestions. Jackson was probably reacting to Obama’s Father’s Day admonition to fathers, in which he charged them to take care of the seeds.
“See, Barack’s been talking down to black people on this faith-based—,” Jackson said off air on Fox News. “I want to cut his nuts off.”
As a black man who grew up without a father in the house, I’d like to cut Jackson’s nuts off, but that’s beside the point.
Suddenly everyone thinks that Jackson’s statements will somehow alter the way people view Obama and thus hurt his campaign. Question is, how many people do you know that still take the Jesse Jacksons and the Al Sharptons seriously? I’d rather take advice from Michael Eric Dyson than from Jesse-Sharpton.
Calm down, people. Let grumpy old men be grumpy old men. I’m sure he’s made worse off-the-cuff remarks behind the scenes. He’s apologized. His son apologized. Obama has accepted his apology.
We could get into all the reasons why Uncle Jesse wants to neuter Obama. But seriously, who even cares?
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