Race-baiter Jesse Jackson at it again
This time injecting his perverted view of race in America into the healthcare debate.
Just when you thought this guy was basically irrelevant, the good reverend (and I use that term loosely) forces himself back into the spotlight with a few well placed swipes at…get this…HIS OWN RACE.
Via Live Leak
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.
“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
The remark stirred a murmur at the reception, held by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation as part of a series of events revolving around the 25th anniversary of Jackson’s run for president. Several CBC members were in attendance, including Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who’d introduced Jackson.
Davis, who is running for governor, is the only black member of Congress from Alabama.
He is also the only member of the CBC to have voted against the healthcare bill earlier this month.
Davis referred to Jackson’s 1988 run for president in a statement, issued through his office, that said he would not engage Jackson on his criticism.
“One of the reasons that I like and admire Rev. Jesse Jackson is that 21 years ago he inspired the idea that a black politician would not be judged simply as a black leader,” Davis’s statement said. “The best way to honor Rev. Jackson’s legacy is to decline to engage in an argument with him that begins and ends with race.”
Davis’s Democratic primary opponent, Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks, highlighted Davis’s status as the lone African-American vote against the bill.
He is also the only member of the CBC to have voted against the healthcare bill earlier this month, a fact Sparks pointed out.
“He was the only Black Caucus member to vote against it. I don’t get it,” Sparks said last week, according to The Associated Press.
Davis has countered that Sparks’s position on healthcare has changed over time, saying he’s being “deliberately dishonest.”
So lets recap here. If you are black, you must be in favor of socialized government takeover of the health care bill. If you are black, and find yourself in opposition to the government running the most intimate details of our individual lives, you clearly are not black.
Now I get it. Thanks Jesse. Please go back to your irrelevance. Your schtick of fighting for the civil rights of minorities and blacks has grown tiresome. You are nothing more than a political hack, who uses and manipulates your own race due to your incessant need to be in the spotlight. Your best days are behind you Sir.
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