Aggie
07-22-2008, 04:20 PM
Requiem for Jesse
Have you ever seen a video of a New Orleans jazz funeral? There is a horse drawn carriage, decorated with flowers and there are several musicians, family members and friends wearing black garb following the cortege. Rather than the crying and sadness usually seen at funerals, there is great rejoicing and celebration. One can hear over the shouts of jubilation from the crowd, the words, "the king is dead, long live the king."
With just a few sentences before an open mike at the Fox studios, Jesse Jackson wrote his own epitaph. Jackson along with the Rev. Al Sharpton have been the self-appointed leaders of the black community. Jackson expressed with venomous acrimony that he would like to castrate Barack Obama "for talking down to black people" and supporting faith-based initiatives.
I have news for Jackson, Obama wasn't talking down to "black America," but rather expressed the views of another generation;one that hasn't experienced the oppression of the past. There are no more chains or shackles; and this is a new day. Obama has done in a short time what Rice, Thomas, Cosby and others have tried to do for decades; to show that our success lies within ourselves, not with invoking specters from the past. Jesse is rooted in the past, and he is upset that the slaves may escape the chains he has placed on their minds.
it is so difficult to write anything positive about Obama because I think he is at best deluded and at worst, very dangerous. Obama has neutered Jesse, who sees a racist behind every door, and a corporate pocket to be picked. Jackson showed the world, what many of us, have known about him. He is a mean spirited, obnoxious, self-aggrandizing petty demagogue with a "massa" complex. He has amassed millions by blackmailing cowardly corporations by threatening them with slave uprisings. He successfully preached to modern day "slaves" that they were victims, doomed to a life of drudgery imposed on them by white people.
He convinced millions that they were not responsible for their troubles. He constantly presented images of the "white bogey man," plotting against the black man, preventing us from becoming "all that we can be." He convinced millions that that they weren't accountable for themselves, their families or their behaviors. On Jesse's plantation, the slaves blamed everyone, except themselves, even demanding reparations for ills committed against their ancestors. Jesse and his cohorts convinced many that there were fences of exclusion where none existed. Millions believed that their God, their provider resided in Washington.
With the ascendancy of Barack Obama, a well educated, twenty-first century pragmatic politician, who benefited from the Civil Rights movement, a new paradigm has been created. It centers on personal responsibility and accountability and it drives Jesse crazy to realize that he is being exposed for who he really is. Obama's rhetoric has neutered Jackson and told the slaves that they are free to leave the plantation, if they choose to. This is not an endorsement of Obama's politics, but rather an endorsement of his life.
Because of Obama African-Americans will no longer be accepted as America's perpetual victims.
Goodbye Jesse. I always knew you, now everyone else knows you too
The King is DEAD
PS: www.no-bamanation.info-my website
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Have you ever seen a video of a New Orleans jazz funeral? There is a horse drawn carriage, decorated with flowers and there are several musicians, family members and friends wearing black garb following the cortege. Rather than the crying and sadness usually seen at funerals, there is great rejoicing and celebration. One can hear over the shouts of jubilation from the crowd, the words, "the king is dead, long live the king."
With just a few sentences before an open mike at the Fox studios, Jesse Jackson wrote his own epitaph. Jackson along with the Rev. Al Sharpton have been the self-appointed leaders of the black community. Jackson expressed with venomous acrimony that he would like to castrate Barack Obama "for talking down to black people" and supporting faith-based initiatives.
I have news for Jackson, Obama wasn't talking down to "black America," but rather expressed the views of another generation;one that hasn't experienced the oppression of the past. There are no more chains or shackles; and this is a new day. Obama has done in a short time what Rice, Thomas, Cosby and others have tried to do for decades; to show that our success lies within ourselves, not with invoking specters from the past. Jesse is rooted in the past, and he is upset that the slaves may escape the chains he has placed on their minds.
it is so difficult to write anything positive about Obama because I think he is at best deluded and at worst, very dangerous. Obama has neutered Jesse, who sees a racist behind every door, and a corporate pocket to be picked. Jackson showed the world, what many of us, have known about him. He is a mean spirited, obnoxious, self-aggrandizing petty demagogue with a "massa" complex. He has amassed millions by blackmailing cowardly corporations by threatening them with slave uprisings. He successfully preached to modern day "slaves" that they were victims, doomed to a life of drudgery imposed on them by white people.
He convinced millions that they were not responsible for their troubles. He constantly presented images of the "white bogey man," plotting against the black man, preventing us from becoming "all that we can be." He convinced millions that that they weren't accountable for themselves, their families or their behaviors. On Jesse's plantation, the slaves blamed everyone, except themselves, even demanding reparations for ills committed against their ancestors. Jesse and his cohorts convinced many that there were fences of exclusion where none existed. Millions believed that their God, their provider resided in Washington.
With the ascendancy of Barack Obama, a well educated, twenty-first century pragmatic politician, who benefited from the Civil Rights movement, a new paradigm has been created. It centers on personal responsibility and accountability and it drives Jesse crazy to realize that he is being exposed for who he really is. Obama's rhetoric has neutered Jackson and told the slaves that they are free to leave the plantation, if they choose to. This is not an endorsement of Obama's politics, but rather an endorsement of his life.
Because of Obama African-Americans will no longer be accepted as America's perpetual victims.
Goodbye Jesse. I always knew you, now everyone else knows you too
The King is DEAD
PS: www.no-bamanation.info-my website
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