printInteresting to note that some blacks—Jesse Jackson, for one—find Obama snooty. I tend to agree with him here. When Obama preaches about AWOL black fathers, which is what angered the irascible Jackson, it doesn’t quite come off as when Bill Cosby did the same.
For one, Cosby’s brutally honest assessment of the black family was trail blazing at the time. He was one of the first influential, witty black Americans to pick up on the issue. Obama just sounds like a dripping tap.
Speaking of doing a doctor Phil, the Democratic and Republican strategists to whose oracular wisdom and originality we’re subjected day-in-and-day out, have psychoanalyzed the Jackson quip. Apparently Jesse is jealous of Obama, who represents a change of the guard in race relations (really?). That’s weak. Substituting psychoanalysis for analysis is pretty weak.
Another thought crossed my mind: Jackson wanted Obama’s manhood, metaphorically. Or so the strategists tell us. I’m not sure there’s much manhood there. Obama will be the first metrosexual president. He’s not quite the metrosexual; he’s just not very manly.
Michelle Obama, on the other hand, has testosterone to spare. Jesse had better not try “cutting of her n-ts,” which is what he envisaged doing to Obama for “talking down to black.”
In any event, why is Jackson’s menacing utterance causing such a ripple? I guess it’s news to our “strategists” that Jackson is a bit of dreck.
So, has anyone in media so far had the frankness to express that this is all just completely insane?
According to the odd, leftist brand of Christianity of Jackson and Sharpton, individual responsibility for one’s own errors is nonexistent. Your Savior is the Department of Bureaucratic Victimization.
Perhaps Jackson’s comment slip-up was intentional to make Obama seem less like the racial radical that he actually is to non-blacks.