I Can Learn
By Mitch Berg
For all these years, I thought that being “African-American” was a combination of African-descended ethnicity and, at some level, some stake in the cultural history involving slavery, reconstruction and the battle for civil rights.
Silly me.
It’s all about supporting Obama, no matter what:
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 from Alabama,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
Well, there you have it!
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:31 am
You can’t take that race pimp joke seriously.
November 23rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
It would have been priceless to have been around Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell when that news came to their homes….and prehaps unprintable in its result…
November 24th, 2009 at 1:26 am
It was a stupid statement, but it has nothing to do with Obama. Jackson simply believes that blacks will greatly benefit from healthcare reform, and that a black man who votes against helping black people shouldn’t be able to call himself a black man. Not that it makes any sense.
But we all know that everything is Obama’s fault in the end.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:15 am
Wait a sec … I thought all problems were inherited from the previous administration. Is that not so? If not, why does the head of the current administration keep saying it?
November 24th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Troy, has the president blamed our health insurance problems on President Bush?