Twenty-three years ago, the Reverend Jessee Jackson revealed himself to be nothing more than a hateful bigot. During the past week he has done it again. Why does the media keep treating this charlatan with kid gloves? Why do the democratic presidential candidates keep sucking up to this racist hypocrite? There is only one reason - he's black.
In 1984, while Jackson was seeking the democratic nomination for president, he had a conversation which he thought was private and off-the-record with Milton Coleman, a Washington Post reporter. During that coversation, Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and New York City as "Hymietown." The term Hymie stems from the once popular name - "Hyman" - given to Jewish boys and is used as an ethnic slur by bigoted gentiles.
A highly publicized storm of anger erupted in the Jewish community when his bigoted slurs were revealed. At first, Jackson denied the remarks, but when the Washington Post stood behind its reports of the slurs, he accused Jews of trying to defeat his presidential bid. With Jackson at his side, his long-time ally Louis Farrakhan, the rabid anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, then threatened Coleman and warned Jews that "If you harm this brother (Jackson), it will be the last one you harm."
In my blog BLACK ANTI-SEMITISM (September 6, 2006), I informed you that, by and large, blacks have always been one of the most anit-Semitic groups in this country, ranking right up there with the KKK and other Christian survivalist groups. That would explain Jackson's slurs, as well as fellow demagogue Al Sharpton's conduct against Jews in the Crown Heights riot and in the Freddie's Fashion Mart protest.
Now once again, Jackson has shown his true colors. Jackson criticized presidential candidate Barack Obama for not forcefully condemning the alleged injustice of "The Jena 6" case by accusing him of "acting like he's white." Jackson was speaking at Benedict College, a predominantly black school in Columbia, South Carolina. That was clearly a racist remark, suggesting that whites are bad.
When his remarks were published, Jackson first said he could not remember making the "acting like he's white" comment. Later, he released a statement saying he was " taken out of context." Like hell he was. Over the years, Jackson has revealed himself to be what he truly is - a racist and a bigot.
There seems to be an unwritten law in the mainstream media that you can report the racist remarks of black demagogues like Jackson and Sharpton, but you cannot comdemn them for their racist demagoguery. Hence the kid glove treatment. And in order to curry favor with black voters, democratic politicians put a high premium on their appearance in public alongside the two racist reverends.
When prominent whites make racist remarks they are raked over the coals by the media and deprived of their livelyhood. In 1988, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, a sportscaster, was fired by CBS over an innocuous, but stupid explanation he made for the success of black athletes. And more recently, there was the Don Imus affair. Snyder and Imus lost their jobs, while Jackson and Sharpton are frequent guests on news talk shows and democratic presidential candidates continue sucking up to those racist hypocrites.
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