What is wrong with these black "leaders"??? Yesterday Andrew. Today Jesse! Hateration of the HIghest Order!! Apparently, the Rev. Jesse Jackson issued an apology to Barack Obama Wednesday for making what he called a "crude and hurtful" remark about the Illinois senator's recent comments directed toward some members of the black community.
According to Jackson, a Fox News microphone picked up comments he meant to deliver privately that seemed to disparage the presumptive Democratic nominee for appearing to lecture the black community on morality. Check out the video...
Jackson, who has endorsed Obama, didn't elaborate on the context of his remarks, except to say he was trying to explain that Obama was hurting his relationship with black voters by recently conducting "moral" lectures at African-American churches.
Jackson's apology came a few hours before Fox News planned to air the remarks.
Speaking to CNN Wednesday, Jackson said he feels "very distressed" over the comments.
"This is a sound bite in a broader conversation about urban policy and racial disparities. I feel very distressed because I'm supportive of this campaign and with the senator, what he has done and is doing," he said. "I said he comes down as speaking down to black people. The moral message must be a much broader message. What we need really is racial justice and urban policy and jobs and health care. That's a range of issues on the menu.
"Then I said something I regret was crude. It was very private. And very much a sound bite," he also said.
In a statement issued earlier Wednesday to CNN, Jackson said, "For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. My support for Senator Obama’s campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment."
Over the course of the campaign season, Obama has at times directed criticism directly to the black community, most sharply in a Chicago speech on Father's Day that criticized some men for failing in their duties as parents.
"They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it," Obama said then.
"You and I know how true this is in the African-American community. We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were children. We know the statistics: that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime, nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison," he also said.
The Obama campaign had no immediate comment.
2 comments:
He is simply jaleaus that Obama took him off the stage. We don't like top face the truth, we like people who can like to us like so call black leaders. A true leadership should be inspiring, full of truth and integrity. Rev, Jackson is talking about jobs and health care on the menu,,, How can we when some of our brothers refuse to take charge and own up to their responsabilities to be a father, We know how to call our women hos and bitches, we know how to get them pregnant, we know how to drop out of school for the quick way out to anything that can bring the fast cash,,, but we dont know how to self reflect on issues that are killing us. We are too busy blaming the white man, or too busy going after the black kid who is reading a book and talk properly because he is traying to be white... Corporate Amnerica knows better, the hiring managers know better.......
Casey, dkblogs.com
It never ceases to amaze me. The Willie Lynch mentality that is so deeply engraned into our people. Of all people Jesse Jackson, no not Jesse, Lord help us Pleeeezzz!
if Yeshua don't come soon there is no telling what will become of us'izzs. I'm really ashamed for Jesse, to think all the good he did do, but now his legacy will say in the end, he wanted to cut the ----- off of Barack Obama!! it doesn't matter all the Marches he did for freedom, it doesn't matter he was with Martin Luther King when he was assasinated, now all they will say is he was another typical N word always pulling each other down trying to get to the top and never getting over!! People lets stop the hating, we got to win this battle together in unity. Lets get behind Barack , some day a change will come!!
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