Senator Barack Obama may not be holding a grudge against Reverend Jesse Jackson, but Obama made it clear in a speech at the NAACP convention yesterday in Cincinatti, Jackson could say what he wants, but the message will remain. Obama asserted to convention-goers he is not going to stop being tough on the black community.
Last week, Jackson was overheard on FOX cameras saying that Obama has been, “talking down to blacks” (Read: "Is Jesse Jackson His Brother's Keeper"). Obama stayed on message at the convention, saying that while the government has the responsibilities of providing education, employment opportunities and tax breaks for struggling families, parents also have responsibilities and some of them are to raise their children in the correct manner in accordance with teaching their sons to treat women with respect. “We need individual responsibility and societal responsibility,” he emphasized.
Furthermore, attendees of the NAACP convention defended Obama, expressing the need for black communities to emerge as a united front in order to see a change in the future. “Obama is not talking down to us…as blacks we need to come together as a community and accept responsibility,” attendee Stephanie Morton said.
Concluding his speech, Obama made a logical reference to black history as a way to demonstrate the need of pushing blacks. “Thurgood Marshall did not argue Brown versus Board of Education so that some of us could stop doing our jobs as parents…that’s not the freedom they fought so hard to achieve.”
July 15, 2008 @ 10:43 pm
Obama Addresses Jesse Jackson's Comments
Senator says he is not going to stop being tough on the black community
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blkarach says:
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It is my opinion that Rev Jackson said something in private
that he never meant to see the light of day and that is unfortunate. Maybe the question for black people is Why did he say it? If anyone on the forefront of black leadership today has a right to an opinion of what is happening on that front it is Rev. Jackson.
Rev. Jackson has spent decades dealing with those who have no interest in black progress and clearly something about Sen. Obama bothers him.
It is undeniable that Sen. Obama's campaign is historic but so was Rev. Jackson's and he was magnificent and his credentials as an African American were impeccable which cannot be said for Sen. Obama.
It seems convenient for everyone to ignore the fact that the only true by prevailing criteria African American who seems to be headed for the Whitehouse is Sen. Obama's wife.
It is my understanding that Sen. Obama is the child of an African father and a Anglo mother which means he does not come to be the ethnicity Black/African American by way of slave, nigra, colored, Negro, Black and finally African American that most who consider themselves African Americans today did.
For young blacks who are inclined to dismiss Rev. Jackson.out of hand. Maybe you should read that other history book.
Just my opinion.
Thanks
Blkarach
July 26, 2008 at 11:09 am
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zodiac says:
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"while the government has the responsibilities of providing education, employment opportunities and tax breaks for struggling families,"
the Audacity of hope that the government is responsible for making sure you don't struggle.
July 16, 2008 at 6:39 pm
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PrinceNY says:
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SENATOR...BARACK OBAMA 4 PRESIDENT...BUT DONT TRUST THEM REV.JESSE JACKSON...SAME WAY HE f**k WITH NAS ABLUM..."N.I.G.G.E.R"...OKTHAT IS TRUTH THE WE NEED INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SOCIETAL RESONSIBILITY AND AS BLACKS WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY AND ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITIES....RIGHT
July 16, 2008 at 4:02 am