Posted by: McQ on Thursday, July 10, 2008 To me the most interesting thing about the latest Jesse Jackson Sr. kerfuffle isn't that he has once again shot his mouth off and been caught doing so, or that he was once again taking offense where none was given, or even that he who loves to play Reverend was crude in doing so. Nope, it's the reaction of his son to what he said that's the most interesting part of the dust up. He's not pleased: "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Reverend Jackson's reckless statements about Senator Barack Obama. His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee — and I believe the next president of the United States — contradict his inspiring and courageous career," wrote Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), an Obama campaign co-chairman, in a statement sent out after word began spreading that his father had said something crude and deeply offensive.Old guard, new guard? Fox claims it has withheld even more damaging rhetoric. But it really isn't necessary to hear more to understand that the old race warlords of the "cult of the victim" aren't going to give up their lucrative careers easily. Even if the candidate is black, he can't be "talkin' down" to "black folks". And it is clear that Jackson would like to symbolically castrate Obama by ensuring he never makes whatever mistake he supposedly made in that regard. Jackson is simply another version of Jeremiah Wright. While it may be counter intuitive, both have a lot to lose if Obama is elected president. The highest glass ceiling in the land will have been shattered. It will be difficult to then claim to other blacks that you can't get there from here. The convenient crutch of institutional racism suddenly provides much less support and blacks will have to turn their examination inward instead of casting blame outward. So Jackson wants to school Obama on how he should act and what he should say to ensure they both have continuing careers should Obama end up in the White House in January. Jackson wants to ensure that Obama's success is a "yea, but..." success - one that he can point to with pride and then say "yeah, but for the rest of the black population, the glass ceiling remains firmly in place." If he's unable to say that, he may have to do something other than shake down corporations for guilt money in the coming years. And that just wouldn't do, would it? |
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