CHICAGO (AP) – For decades the Rev. Jesse Jackson has rallied against the use of the N-word – an ethnic slur he has repeatedly told the American public is hateful and degrading. But Fox News confirmed to The Associated Press Wednesday that the longtime civil rights activist used the term in what Jackson thought was a private conversation during a break from a TV interview.Jackson has already come under fire this month for crude off-air comments he made against presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama that were recorded during a taping of a “Fox & Friends” news show.In additional comments from that same conversation, first reported by TVNewser, Jackson is reported to have said Obama was “talking down to black people … telling ‘N-words’ how to behave.”Fox declined to release the full transcript of the July 6 show and did not air the comments.
The man can rhyme, the man can speak.Supposedly helping supposedly weakBut though he is a “man of god”His words amount to total fraudI wonder if his god concurredIt’s right to use the famed “n-word”or if at this his god would frown,Because God lives in “Heimey-town”We all know he will serve no timeWhen god’s involved, fraud isn’t crime.His rhymes are better than mine — who cares?At least I’m not the one praying to air.
To Not So Fast,
I gather your a black American, and if your not it’s unimportant. What other individuals on this site said is unimportant, because you cannot group me with them. As a child I grew up in a small town in Idaho where there were no black Americans. But, I was taught that that is not a “black man”, that is a man.
I would gladly extend my hand to you judging you exactly as MLK said. Not knowing you, it is impossible to judge the content of your character. So let’s leave introductions to another time.
My older brother recieved the same training and turned into a bigot piece of crap. Go figure.
But, let me make myself clear, I don’t take back anything I said. Blacks were dealt a raw hand, and no one can make right the injustices, but that is irrelevent, you cannot resurrect the unjustly murdered, you cannot execute the guilty who are already in their graves. What you can do though is turn around the lives of your family and the people you love. Senator Obama just showed how possible it is. It’s a new day, and if some things I say sound harsh, it’s kinda like the alarm clock going off in the morning saying don’t be late for work, because the job is just beginning.
Good luck to all of us.
NeoWolfe
Neo-I know what you mean. My little bro is repusively racist. No one in our family can figure out why. Sometimes I’d like to stick my foot up his ass. I mean most times.
matador,
I understand, its hard to know if people are inviting you over for dinner because they want to share a meal with you or because they want share YOU as a meal.
My friend, I strongly recommend that you remain skeptical and aware at all times in your dealings with people; blacks, whites, hispanics, etc. You just never know if you will be mislead for one reason or another, and it does not have to be racial. It could be greed, jealousy, envy, or just stupidity.
atheon,
Count me as one more ‘white’ atheist who supports your position 100%. I’m sure there are racist atheists (no accusations) but it just seems like a contradiction to think really clearly about one subject and utterly simplistically about another.
Bottom line: It’s lazy thinking to say that people with a certain concentration of melanin in their skin are inherently a certain way. What next, stereotypes about blood types? Why not? It’s physiologically more significant!
Lazy thinking like that is also what I see when people decide that there must be a god. Little wonder then, that churches are the most segregated part of American society and the most likely place to find racists.
Where might we be if segregated religion had not been the center of American social life all these decades?
Chris B,
I’m glad to know that we are in agreement, which suggests that on some level we’ve had a meeting of the minds.
I believe that an intellectual meeting of the minds (MOM) between two people is as emotionally rewarding as a devine revelation.
I also believe that an intellectual MOMs based on reason can and will allow men to transcend racial and physical constraints. (Just as you and I did!)
Religious people try to acheive this through prayer, beliefs in false truths, self mutilation, fasting (starving…), mental gymnastics, tithing, and false confessions.
Just imagine, we didn’t have to do any of that stuff…
Thx
And women too! Look out for sexist language
Humans are pattern-seekers. Giving someone a second, third, fourth, etc. chance to screw you over requires faith.
The faithless give very few, if any, second chances…don’t we?
cry4turtles,
My apologizies… women too!