Jesse, Jesse, Jesse

Double Standards. Oh, you’ve gotta love them especially if you’re on the right side of them. In this case Reverend Jesse Jackson may be on the right side of one. First of all, I had this whole post planned to write. It was gonna be good. While searching youtube, I found a couple of vlog responses to Reverend Jesse Jackson’s comments about cutting off Obama’s balls. I found one of the “cleaner” ones, and he just says what I’ve been thinking. I don’t know about Jesse Jackson and even Al Sharpton anymore.

This guy is fantastic !

Jackson says his comments were taken out of context. The media is notorious for taking soundbytes and screwing with them, not telling the whole story many of the times, but how much of a story needs to be told about what was said? He could have said the same thing, “he’s talking down to black people.” without dropping n-bombs and without wanting to cut Obama’s stuff off. I would like to add, now that the comments about Jackson referring to us African Americans as ni**ers in addition to the desire to cut off Obama’s junk, I just can’t see him as a respectable leader for civil rights (for anything really) anymore. As the guy in the video said, Jesse (sometimes Sharpton) is just a guy looking for “camera-worthy” attention.

‘In additional comments from that same conversation, first reported by TVNewser, Jackson is reported to have said Obama was “talking down to black people,” and referred to blacks with the N-word when he said Obama was telling them “how to behave.”‘ (AP)

I’m black and I take offense when anyone (ethnicity doesn’t matter) says it. Even if it’s not directed at me it still bothers me. It’s something I’ve never liked and I wasn’t raised to refer to people by that. I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t been exposed to the word enough for it to mean what it means to other black people. I don’t recall hearing the word until junior high. Many black celebrities have expressed fondness for the word when the issue came up a while ago when Imus made his mistake. Celebrity opinions really don’t matter and for the most part are completely worthless. I don’t know if the n-word will ever be acceptable for me. For now, no.

Thinking about the consequences that would happen to other people if the same thing would happen to fall out of their mouths, I ask myself, what could be done about this screw up? Probably nothing! Jesse Jackson apologized and that will probably be enough to keep people happy. As a black man, he has the right to drop n-bombs whenever he wants to. It’s just a sad ridiculous fact of the double standard. Someone like Don Imus or Bill O’Riley utters the same phrase, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson along with the entire NAACP will get those men fired within a day or two, maybe hours. We saw how quick both these men worked to get Imus fired for calling members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team “…some nappy headed hoes.” We claim that, “The n-word is our word and white people can’t use it. It’s like a word of endearment, like ‘what’s up my brother.’” White people just have to accept they are on the wrong end of a touchy and complex double standard.

He should just give it up, he’s lost a lot of my respect in the short time I’ve known about him.

“I’m afraid JJ has been an embarrassment, a charlatan, and a buffoon for too long now to ever be taken seriously again. Lately it seems like there’s a kind of sad symbiosis going on where Jesse feels he has to be on camera and the networks put him on camera because he’s so willing to say outrageous things to keep himself there.” (Commented by Steve)

Well said.

Why shouldn’t some form of punishment happen to Reverend Jackson. It’s only fair. He said something incredibly stupid on air just as Imus did. Yet, I just don’t think anything other than something like a slap on the wrist will happen in the aftermath of this. I wonder…oh how I wonder, what would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. think about Jackson, yes even Shaprton?