Jesse Jackson Lays Out Evidence of Barack Obama’s Whiteness
The Rev. Jesse Jackson accused presidential candidate Barack Obama this week of “acting like he’s white.”
Now, in an exclusive report, Media Orchard has obtained the contents of Rev. Jackson’s dossier on Obama, featuring damning evidence of the Illinois senator’s whiteness:
He dresses white.
He watches TV white.
He listens to music white.
And most vexing to the Rev. Jackson, he’s popular with whites.
This is shocking stuff. Thank God we have Rev. Jackson around to make sure that black people only do and say “black” things.
Tags: barack obama, jesse jackson, stereotypes
Who knew he was soooo white! Thank you for uncovering this for us.
What the hell is “acting white” supposed to mean? What stereotypical white behavior is the founder of the so-called Rainbow Coalition referring to so dismissively? And if a white power-broker accused a white candidate of “acting like he’s black,” wouldn’t Jesse Jackson (and his buddy Al Sharpton) be in the front row of the lynch mob calling for his disembowelment?
I’m so confused.
The double standard on racism is weighing us down. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a day when his children would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, yet his most intimate followers — including Jesse Jackson — seem more obsessed with the color of a man’s skin than the content of his character. If Jesse Jackson (and many, many other black leaders) cannot live up to King’s standard, can they truly expect other races to do it?
I won’t waste any more of your bandwidth. I blogged more fully about this at Under the News
friggin hilarious