Too White?!
Captain’s Quarters: “These kinds of remarks are designed to divide communities and exploit racial tensions for no one’s benefit except the speaker’s. Jackson sees the rise of Obama as a threat to his own position as a media-selected leader of the black community and wants to attack him as insufficiently authentic to protect his own turf.”
Ed Driscoll: “Barack Obama has just quietly generated his own Sister Souljah moment. It will be interesting to see if he can capitalize on it further.”
Andrew Sullivan: “Obama in the end didn’t need a Sistah Souljah moment. He needed a Jesse Jackson moment. And he just got one.”
Cliff Schecter: “Look, I’m not naive enough to believe that if Obama got the nomination race wouldn’t become an issue at some point in a general election. But I certainly didn’t think it would be Jesse Jackson who would inject the issue of race into this election.”
Hot Air: “What’s more obnoxious – equating Obama’s refusal to behave exactly as Jackson wants him to with racial inauthenticity, the fact that Jackson would make that rhetorical move so casually as not even to remember it afterwards, the offhand insult to whites who are interested in the Jena case and support the defendants, or the fact that he’s conveniently overlooking the fact that Obama is white on his mother’s side?
Red State: “Jesse Jackson is a liar as well as race pimp because we all know if there was any political or monetary gain to be made in him going to Jena, he would already be there.”
The Van Der Gali√´n Gazette: “It amazes me to no end that some African-Americans actually listen to whatever it is Jesse Jackson has to say.”
The American Thinker: “But attacking a man you’ve already endorsed for refusing to sink to that same level of repugnancy betrays the very man you are. And attempting to introduce the word ‘White’ as a pejorative is beneath contempt.”
Booker Rising: “Yes, the Jena 6 case is foul, but hardly equivalent to black masses not having voting rights. Come now.”
Stop The ACLU: “A black man that acts like he is white boils down to, he isn’t black enough, at least in the Reverend’s twisted mind.”
Obama acts white so Hillary acts black jumping to the defense of the Jena 6.
I think I got something on my shoe.
Regrettably, Jackson’s comment is enough to doom Obama’s presidential hopes. In the black community, “acting white” is the kiss of death. I’m no fan of Obama, but that “accusation” is enough to turn a lot of black voters away from Obama. Jackson knows this full well, and he has bided his time to use the “acting white” charge knowing full well how the black community, for the most part, will receive it.
BTW, if Obama’s view of genocide is that “stuff happens,” is it any wonder that he’s not too worked up over Jena?
I liked Dan Collins’ one-sentence post over at the Protein Wisdom Pub best:
“Bigots expect a stereotypical response. Progressives demand it.”
It shouldn’t come as a surprise. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are notorious race baiters.
Charge the “Jena 6″ with hate crimes.
RE: indga’s comment:
It’s sad that a black or minority person cannot succeed without fear of being hit with the “acting white” label. And sad that many black people buy into this mind-set.
Sadder still that the so-called black leadership perpetuate this racist attitude, with deleterious effects on the younger generation.
Many kids, not just minorities by the way, are thinking,”If I try to hard and do too well, I am ‘acting white’ and selling out. Not cool.”
For the sake of the kids, the Jesse and Al show needs to fold up the circus tent, and disappear along with the gangsta side-show freaks.
Why doesn’t Rev. Al Sharpton grab his bullhorn and storm Jesse Jackson’s mansion gates.
I reckon that Obama comment was tad racist and insensitive.