We have Black Leaders who represents our dreams, ideas and desires and they should not be chosen by White Americans and their media outlets, Patrick Buchanan needs to shut before he gets what he deserves which is a shotgun to the head. Good grief, I have never seen someone like him gets paid to talk as a “commentator” and they don’t invite a black person like Adolph Reed, Ras Baraka, Chuck D, Connie Rice, Rev Wright or others who will provide a clear opposing viewpoint on these shows, instead we get Amy Holmes, Michelle Bernard, Roland Martin or some neutred Black Person like John Capeheart who are such pussies I want to hurl. I don’t think Rev. Jackson said anything wrong about Sen. Obama in any sense, if anything Obama better watch out because there are Brothas and Sistas who will not vote for him because he has not outlined any agenda in the inner cities and has done that for Hispanics, Jews, Working Class Whites and others.

Obama needs every black vote he can get and if he keeps on bashing Brothas to please Whites like some of the trolls who lurk here he will will not win in November because he will have alienated enough Blacks to that many will vote for Nader or Mc Kinney and it would not take much maybe 5%. He is using the media to prove to the American Electorate that he will “stand up to the niggers”, and with 20% of Clinton supporters not voting for him because of their racist attitudes and Hispanics and others taking a cool attitude towards him his campaign is committing politcal suicide. Obama was never a black leader like Farrakhan who could pull all the tribes together for something bigger than themselves or like King, and Malcolm.

Obama does not represent change he is a continuation of black leaders looking out for number 1 since the black progressive movement fell in the 70′s. I am afraid Black Folks will be disapointed come November and the “Bradley Effect” takes place because there will even greater hatred of whites because we are believing that white amerikkans will ignore race in the voting booth, I have the utpmost faith like the Cubs choking in October that Obama will get trounced by McCain unless he builds bridges in the Black Community amongst people who think Jackson and Wright are correct in their accessment of Sen. Obama and Michelle will not be able to massage those egos.

Read Rolling Stone last issue and look at his advisors and see where he is getting his marching orders, you will see where I am coming from.

@ mizzo, thanks for posting this and agreed that all this Jesse-Barack noise is bullshit. A little off topic, but I am interested more in your conversation about black journalists dying young (Ralph Wiley comes to mind). It would be consistent with why black folk suffer in greater rates of just about every other disease as a result of racial stress. But I could only imagine that it is that much worse in journalism. Anyway, any more names/articles you can share on this would be helpful…

@origin – you say Obama “is a politican nothing more nothing else.” IMO, this is only partly true. Of course, anyone running for president has to politic, and of course he faces a whole new set of barriers exclusive to a black candidate. But there is a difference between “compromising” and “selling your soul”. Both Clintons will and have sold their soul for personal ambition. Obama has shown many times that there are limits. When he came out against the war on 2002, that was presidential career suicide, yet he put it on the line. Both his speeches on race and later petriotism were extremely unconventional and risky from a political point of view. My point is not that he deserves no criticism, but only that when judged through a political lens he is much much more than your average politician — but still a politician.

@Origin2: completely agreed on Jesse/Al. Bottom line is warts and all, if they didn’t make the call on the Jena 6, it never would have been picked up by mainstream media. It was making its way around the blogosphere for months and the only mainstream guy who picked it up was Chicago’s Howard Witt. Hell, even the BBC picked up the story before CNN. People dog Sharpton all the time, but what they don’t know is that after Amadou Diallo demonstrations, he was able to force some tangible changes in the NYC police department. He is again trying to do the same via Sean Bell right now. Until there is someone else that can force these changes, the plusses of Jesse and Al far outweigh their weakness.

@sankofa: I think that many will be surprised what Obama could do if he gets elected. If he somehow gets a 60-40 congress, then he can change many laws that will outlast his presidency, not to mention replace the Supreme court justices correctly. However, I haven’t read all of the BAR links yet, so I will stop my optimistic (or naive?) comments right there.

@miranda, so true on Mccain…

@hasani – you definitely must be David Mac. Jesse and Al haven’t accepted money from any corporation that is inconsistent with how every single United States congressman and Senator has done business since forever.

The media is just a joke to me at this point.

Meanwhile:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/11/civil.rights.water.ap/index.html

F that look at Jesse and Obama.

Man its been like this for centuries. Keep the folks dumb. Check thi sout here in dallas it was discovered that the drinking water contained chemicals like AZT, Viagra and prozac. You know how long the media spoke on that about 30 seconds. Yet they spent 5 minutes talking about Tony Romo and his girlfriend.

Yeap thats the plan keep us as dumb as possible.

Oh and sista Miranda I think you might like to know this. The police department dallas is now taking taking steroids test of officers due to the fact that the dude that was dealing steriods to the cops and NFL players that was killed I mean umm killed himself. Stated that he had sold some steriods to cops.

Yet we still haven’t heared from the media umm what killed his girlfriend who was at the house with him.

Its like the world is some old scifi movie and twilight zone episode.

Jesse Jr sure did come quite venomous, didn’t he? Did he have to actually chastise Pops to that degree? I really thought a “I love my father but I disagree with his comments” – or something to that effect, would have sufficed.

Okori, there is only one candidate…and that candidate is Barack Obama…and his opponent is everybody and everything else. Seriously, the blunders of McCain camp have been like dominoes this week, but you wouldn’t know that from the media coverage. My God, McCain has joked about killing Iranian civilians, screwed up his own POW story, showed his age for sure when asked about health ins coverage for birth control versus Viagra, completely goofed up trying to criticize Obama for being absent for a vote that he was not present for either, his chief economic adviser called us a bunch of whiners and said the economy really isn’t so bad (as the customers of Indymac stare blankly at their ATM cards), and on top of all that, its discovered that he applied and received the marriage license to marry his second wife when he wasn’t even divorced from his first one…..DAMN.

The unsaid is that Obama had either lost is balls or never had any to begin with. So this would have been an exercise in futility for Messy Jessie. TSF family, if you’ all do the search you would see that Obama is the worst embodiment of the White Supremacist system, one of us. Because of “race hate fatigue” as well as being part of a cult of personality worship, we embrace him mostly with out critical assessment. Some people say he is not perfect and we should accept him, warts and all, but the warts are leprous and is about to bust pus all over us. http://www.blackagendareport.com has been running a series of challenges to Obama’s audacity of (falls) hope, which basically culminated in his trying to cut Reverend Wrights balls off.

See these links if you haven’t read them. http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=653&Itemid=1

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=656&Itemid=1

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=648&Itemid=1

http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=610&Itemid=1

These are but some of the numerous documentation of Barack Obama’s transgressions, policies, obfuscations, lies and agenda. Nuff said!

I was and will never be a fan of Messy Jessie, he is so full of shit his eyes are brown. However, both of you have made a good point that Jessie has been doing shit for us for over 40 years, whether following his own agenda or not, he was doing what Obama has NEVER done, been in the streets. And to many who’ve been in his presence, he does show a more human side that Obama’s made for TV persona. So when he says that …“Barack been talking down to black people”, he was only voicing what many of us have been voicing for weeks.

Now Mizzo, the White Supremacist system will always seize on any little discontent to blast us and many of us fall hook line and sinker for it. However, some rabid, mangy dogs…and I do mean dogs…will bark at anything to prove a point. That they are the shit! I was wrong when I predicted that Hillbilly would defeat Obama. But I am being proving correct that Obama is and could be the “black” face of America Inc.’s, imperialism.

To me, this is a non issue, but that’s me. Some say it’s jealousy, the passing of the old guard, etc. But what I see is distraction, from a more important issue. The country is going into the toilet and with that, there is going to be some serious domino effect.

And Mizz… I see your point buit could someone explain to me what in the hell Jesse’s thing is with off the record comments? I mean dude…. I remembered this like when i was 17. Unless they tell you your mic is off your mic is still on. And unless you say it’s off the record it’s not.

But with that said…. this is ridiculous that this is a story. How about people’s homes being foreclosed on? How about gas being 4 bucks a barrel as a MEDIAN? How about all of the other stuff that goes on which no one notices? But this gets press.

After all the years of hard work and time that Jesse put into “keeping hope alive” one would think that this would be the proudest moment of his life and that he would take great pride in the fact that Barack can stand on his shoulders and achieve the dream that so often alluded him. This is surely a time when Jesse should be “peacock proud and honeymoon happy” and over the moon joyful about what Barack has achieved, especially given the sacrifices he himself has made. But instead of being puffed up with pride and wanting to give Barack a shot of testosterone to keep him going, Jesse is wanting to “cut his nuts out”, “take the winds out of his sails”, “beat him down”, “put him in his place”, “take him down a few notches”, “knock his block off’”…etc. etc. etc. Jesse Jackson is literally interested in destroying the very dream that many civil rights leaders, including himself, have fought so long and hard for.

Jesse Jackson is also acting like a child. I could not believe that he actually said of Barack’s actions that “he is acting white”. I have not heard that phrase since 7th grade when a boy from “the hood” said that to me for answering a question correctly in class. How stupid is this? How childish is this? VERY. Jesse, I do wish you would consider what kind of message you are sending black children who suffer every day under peer pressure to “dumb down” themselves “act cool” and “be “G” in order to “act black”. This is stupid, stupid, stupid and is the complete wrong message and example to set for our young people. How could you be so ego-centric and shortsighted and consumed with your own power status that you are not embracing the positive message that Barack is bringing to black boys and girls about the power that they have within themselves to make a difference in their lives, other lives and the world? Why are you trying to castrate all the black boys that need the hope, need the confidence and need the personal example that Barack is trying to set for them? These young people need someone to look up to that can give them confidence that they have a future beyond the drugs, beyond the gangs and beyond the prisons! They need to know that being smart and being a good parent and working hard and having a dream and believing in your dream and seeing that you can make a difference is NOT “acting white, but acting right.

Jesse now is your time to either “Follow” Barack or “Get Out of The Way. You had your time to lead and during that time, the plight of the black male continued to deteriorate. Perhaps that is what you are so concerned about? Do you worry that you had your chance and you blew it? Do you worry that Barack is going to make you look bad by setting a better example through his life choices and personal convictions than you did? Are you feeling guilty and looking for a do over? Are you using black people by saying that Barack is talking down to us when you really feel that he is talking down to you? The intensity of your castration statement certainly sounds extremely personal. Perhaps you are recalling your extramarital affair where you fathered a child adding one more single mother and black child without a father in the home? At the time you acknowledged what a problem this was:

“I was born of these circumstances,” said Jackson, himself born out of wedlock, “and I know the importance of growing up in a nurturing, supportive and protected environment so I am determined to give my daughter and her mother the privacy they both deserve.”

acknowledged the pain it caused your wife and kids:

In his statement, Jackson says his wife, Jackie, and their children “have been made aware of the child and it has been an extremely painful, trying and difficult time for them.”

and asked that we forgive you:

“This is no time for evasions, denials or alibis,” Jackson’s statement said. “No doubt, many close friends and supporters will be disappointed in me. I ask for their forgiveness, understanding and prayers.”

And we forgave you. But Jesse, we cannot forgive you for your latest comments where you are talking about wanting to kill hope and the future for our young people in such a violent and crude way. Your jealousy and jonesing has gone too far and while your star might have been dimming before, at least you could have had a graceful departure having been forgiven of your sins of the past. But now you have opened a fresh wound that is sure to tarnish your legacy and most assuredly will keep you from getting more of that attention you so desperately crave. Time for you to check into rehab. and check out of the limelight.