Jesse Jackson agrees with Obama's grandmother
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The hypocrisy of Barack Obama knows no limits.
As you may remember, Obama yesterday chastised his own grandmother for being afraid of blacks:
I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.
Guess what. I have found a 1993 article in the New York Times where Jesse Jackson expressed comments identical to those of Obama's grandmother. Jackson, ladies and gentlemen, was afraid of blacks and relieved when a white person walked by:
Bob Herbert, 12-12-1993:
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.
Yet Obama chose to blame his own defenseless grandmother rather than taking the bold step of taking Jackson to task, even though the latter is an influential figure in the nation, unlike Barry's granny.
Barack Obama's hypocrisy has been in display for a while now. This one is but one more example.
How can Obama compare his grandmother's personal fears privately expressed with an educated community leader deliberately whipping a congregation into a frenzy with paranoid historical misrepresentations?
It's ok. This morning, Obama cleared up his point about his grandmother. He said "The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person."
That makes me feel better.
Good point, I thought I was just about the only one who remembered this.