The Eighth Word You Can’t Say on TV
When I heard the clip of Jesse Jackson threatening to de-nut Barack Obama, I wondered what word got bleeped out. (I never saw the clip, so I can’t tell if one could read his lips.)
Cause he said a very b-a-a-a-d word:
“Barack…he’s talking down to black people…telling n—s how to behave.”
Now, I’m genuinely unclear about something (I know, news flash): was this already widely known and acknowledged, but just not discussed in polite company; was it unintelligible before, but recently deciphered—how is it we’re only learning now that Jesse’s castration fantasy was the second worst thing he said?
Cause if you don’t think saying n— is bad, let Jesse himself apprise you of the situation:
“Its roots are rooted in hatred and pain and degradation,” Jackson told a Los Angeles press conference. “And whether it’s hatred toward African-Americans or whether it’s self-hatred, a concession toward it is still wrong.”
I think he’s right. So does everybody else I know.
In the national dialogue on race we seem to be having incessantly, interminably, only one side of the discussion is going to use this word—and it ain’t going to be whitey.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
July 17, 2008 @ 7:27 am
In 2000 the Democrats gave him prime time to deliver a speech. I remember actually feeling hurt, because there was ol’ Hymie Town Jackson trying to stir up the crowd for my guy, Al Gore. It really revealed the fault lines in the Democrat party, although I ignored it back then. Of course this got worse in 2004 with Al Sharpton up there, one of the worst antisemites and general race baiters of our time.
I wonder what those people who cheered Jackson on in 2000 think of him today? Do they like to hear him talking about Obama the way he talks about whites and Jews? Because the horrified feeling that comes with that, the combination of anger and sadness, has been experienced by many former liberals, I can assure you. Or do they excuse it?
- Aggie