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Jesse Jackson blasted Barack Obama because Obama hasn’t brought attention to a racial incident in Jena, Louisiana.  Jesse’s claim is that Barack is “acting white” by not making it the centerpiece of his campaign right now.  This is so typical Jesse Jackson it’s sickening to me.  Racial tensions reached a loggerhead in the 60’s, when Jackson was a young activist adult.  They kind of simmered through the 70’s, but mellowed substantially.   With the advent of the 80’s we got inter-racial dating and marriages becoming almost a common occurance.  By the 90’s, that wasn’t even shocking any more.  Now in the 21st century, I think I can speak for most whites anyway, it’s a non-issue.  Your either fer me or agin me, the color of your skin is meaningless.  Race issues, to most the whites I know, is non-existant.  So, every so often, you get some racist like Jesse Jackson who stirs up something just to antagonize the issue just like it was 1964 all over again.  Or, at least they try.  Jackson’s a single issue guy and that issue is racism.  If people don’t cower down to his myopic racist views, they’re not black enough.  Enter Obama.  Obama gets pounded every day on issues.  He’s running for national office.  When doing so, you get hit with every conceivable issue imagined.  Every day.  Every waking moment.  As such, I bet you right now Obama could rattle off the top ten most frequently asked questions he gets every single day, every waking moment.  And, I bet, as a skilled politician, he gauges those questions and uses them to form his political strategy.

This leads me to the conclusion I have, which should terrify Jesse Jackson.  My conclusion is most everyone else in this country realizes Jena for what it is.  It’s a fairly isolated incident perpetrated by a very few narow-minded idiots.  It’s not the national problem it was forty years ago.  As such, it’s not something people worry about much.  As such, it’s not something people are asking Obama about.  As such, it’s not something Obama feels compelled to address.  As such, it is absolutely no indication whatsoever on the blackness or whiteness of Obama.  And, the sooner racists like Jackson quit gauging someone on how black or white they are, the sooner racism will go away.

Technorati Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, barack, jena, jesse-jackson, louisiana, obama, Racism

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, barack, jena, jesse-jackson, louisiana, obama, Racism

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