Jesse Jackson: Typical White Person

[NashVegas]

Our thought? Obama can ease up on Grandma a bit. Are we the only ones who recall what Jackson said in 1993? Just to be completely perverse, we’ll let Bob Herbert relay it:

HERBERT (12/12/93): Jesse Jackson is traveling the country with a tough anti-crime message that he is delivering to inner-city youngsters. In Chicago he said, "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved."

Jackson’s remark was widely discussed at the time. Understanding the tragedy of urban crime, Herbert reacted to it approvingly. “There is almost no way to overstate the problem,” he wrote. “In Washington, black youngsters are so aware of the danger of being murdered that some are selecting the outfits they want to be dressed in for their own funerals.”



http://dailyhowler.com/dh031908.shtml


Who else remembers that? I know I do.

[babylonsister]

1. Why do so many people have convenient amnesia?

This whole Obama brouhaha is fabricated imo. Thanks for sharing that; I do remember it, now that you brought it up.