Thought last week's Jackson nuts heard round the world was a slip of the tongue? According to Michelle Malkin, the camera kept rolling — and recorded right over Jackson using the far more inflammatory N word. He said:
Barack . . . he’s talking down to black people . . . telling n*****s how to behave.
OK, I've heard rap, I get that the term is used colloquially. . . but the Rev. Jackson is the same man who condemned the usage of the word for all when he said this following Seinfeld's Michael Richard's n-word meltdown:
Its roots are rooted in hatred and pain and degradation. And whether it’s hatred toward African-Americans or whether it’s self-hatred, a concession toward it is still wrong.
Who are we to believe? The Jesse Jackson who drops the N bomb, or the one who despises it? Though the Fox event may be rooted in campaign rhetoric, the bigger, and more important, question is illustrated in Jackson's second quote: where he asserts that the word be retired from all usage. Should anyone use it — or is its power too great and negative connotations too deep to ever utter in modern society? Is a some-can, some-can't approach so hypocritical that it negates any cries of protest when instances like the Richard's explosion occur?
Petite Fleur
Marc by Marc Jacobs
Forte Forte
what a crazy man.
um, he must love Bill Cosby...
1oh and I think it goes without saying, but yeah
HYPOCRITICAL!
2Majorly hypocritical. The only way to true equality is to behave EQUALLY... otherwise it's all just a farce.
31) Yeah, Jackson is as big a hypocrite as any of the rest of us.
42) Does Malkin disagree with Bill O'Reilly's statement that there was more from the tape that Fox News would not be airing because it was "trash talk" that was "not relevant to public policy."
3) Is our public discourse ever going to mature beyond this 'gotcha' and 'ummm, he said...' playground nonsense?
4) As my conservative friends on Sugar object to links to Huff Post articles, I object to almost daily servings of Malkin. They are not news, I can't find any valid reason for considering her (or Huffington) a journalist. She is a columnist which gives her a platform for spouting her views. Nothing more.
I have to ask this, just because it's Michelle Malkin: are we sure this happened, or are we supposed to just take her word for it?
5One, I have never and will never say that word. Not even singing along with a song, or to make reference to someone else saying it.
Two, it does seem hypocritical, but I can also understand saying one thing as a public person and having occasional slip ups in real life. I don't want to open too big a can of worms, but it's kind of like Al Gore talking about environmentalism but living in a big house that uses a lot of electricity. People get all annoyed about that, but if he wasn't an outspoken environmentalist, no one would care. In the same way, if Jackson wasn't outspoken on this issue, we wouldn't care as much about him using the word. So, we punish people more harshly if they say the right thing and do the wrong thing than we do if they say the wrong thing and so the wrong thing.
6Very hypocritical.
7With that, I'm out of here.
I checked that first thing Jude, it appears to be accurate.
8Like I said in the other post..he did this before..this is not the first time Jesse James shot off the N word.
9Hi JudeC, good question! Michelle Malkin got the story from TVNewser (the last link in the story) and they got it under good advisement from sources at Fox--and they have a closed caption screen-shot of the incident. But you're right to question.
10OK then--I just wanted to make sure
I do think it's hypocritical, and doubly so because of Jackson's specific standing as a moral authority to a certain part of the population, but I also think that we have far more important things to discuss in the national dialogue than whether Jesse Jackson used the N-word.
I would like to say that it's a bit rich for him to use that word while complaining about Obama's treatment of the black community, though.
11From what I've seen.. living in the community..we are divided.
12This is just his true colors coming through. he's such a hypocrite and I'm glad people might actually (finally) be seeing that.
13"I would like to say that it's a bit rich for him to use that word while complaining about Obama's treatment of the black community, though."
So true!
14Hopefully this will make him disappear! He's done a lot of good back in the day, but now its pretty much just complaining and getting white people to kiss his butt if they should dare do something insensitive. I truly hope that part of his legacy is over.
15Oh and there have been more Michelle Malkin links lately, but still no where near how many HuffPo links.
I give snaps to Citizen and Liberty for trying to even it out a bit! Kudos ladies!
16I wonder if Jesse Jackson views his own use of the n-word as being OK because he is black?
17You're probably right trixie
18Trixie, It is my understanding that he condemns black rap artists for using that word, too. Though I could be wrong.
19Get a grip. Jesse Jackson and most "people of color" have been using the "n" word to describe those of color with whom they disagree and sometimes just to jive and talk. In the "color community" it is no biggie at all. It only becomes an issue when a "non-color" or "white" actually hears the word being said. Or when someone is recording the conversation for posterity.
Lighten up. Jesse Jackson is grasping at straws just to see his name in the newspaper. If the Media would ignore him and Al Sharpton, they would quickly fade away into oblivion, where they belong.
20Auntie C., you take me back to the 50s.
21When it comes to Jackson gaffes as of late, this bothered me far less than him saying (of Obama) he would like to "cut his nuts out" when he thought he was off the air...shockingly hostile, and as someone that admired Jackson in the 80s when I was a kid, a really disheartening thing to hear.
Using the "n" word as a person of colour seems to carry an entirely different connotation than a white person saying it, which is understandable since the white use of the word was highly derogatory and often used with violent or intimidating intent. If a person of colour uses it (and god help me this is probably the only time I will agree with Coosa), then it usually has different connotations or meanings.
I remember hearing somewhere that a person of colour might use the "n" word the way a white person might call someone "white trash". But I also know from school that it was also used in an offhanded semi-friendly way, which I see as a positive thing. When people claim words with bad pasts, and reuse them in a positive way, it can un-do the old cultural references with time. On the other hand, the word itself is still far, far too racially charged to be bandied about as if it is harmless, and Jackson should have realised that. Surely he knows.
Jackson is not a stupid man. He is eloquent and at times has been extremely inspirational in his speeches, not only to black ears, but to white ones. But he is also revealed to be a somewhat angry man. While I feel black people in America have been given a somewhat unfair ride through the decades, we must particularly remember that in Jackson's own lifetime, it was more than "unfair". People of colour old enough to remember pre 1970s America probably have a hell of a LOT to be angry and frustrated about, so while I do not like what he said, and am disappointed in him giving into such anger, a part of me understands it.
Its easy to be white, and think we know how it feels to be a black man of his generation. Bottom line is, we do not..but I wish instead of lashing out at Obama, Jackson would see the bigger picture, embrace this candidate's success as the milestone it TRULY IS, and try to find some centre point for the greater benefit of all Americans.
I am so truly..truly sick..of unimportant sh*te mattering so much in politics. Its what got us in this mess.
22Great point rabidmoon!
The N word has deep roots-
23Can you imagine..coming fresh off a boat speaking in your native tongue..being forced into slavery, with chains, a whip, and the N word thrown at you on a daily basis? Yeah..eventually you'll start calling each other the same words. Its sad because the N word..along with other bad words...were probably the first english terms African Americans learned.
I guess we'll never know the true context or "tone" to this quote. it's just another soundbite to cause controversy for the sake of controversy in one of the most annoying election years. I'm so sick of political soundbites and comments and apologizing for this and apologizing for that.
And in the end, it once again proves that no one is perfect. We all say the wrong things at times in life, use sarcasm when no one around us gets it, or say something under our breathe in a heated moment. It's just a shame that people have to expose EVERYTHING and make EVERYTHING an issue.
I look forward to the day when I don't hear about this stuff all the time. (not a complaint about the website, just about the world
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24It is amazing that this "reverand" who never worked an honest day in his life, is the classic racial, poverty wh*re, has fathered an illegitimate child, has resorted to blackmailing credible and honest businesses can still be quoted by any news media.
What will it take to just ignore this blackmailing bore who can't even properly articulate his thoughts???
When people will have the guts to stand up to this bully I guarantee we will never have to listen to him again.
Realist
25(from Brooklyn)
Is anyone surprised by anything this man says or does? Of course he's a hypocrite.
26Well surprise surprise Jessie Jackson is human, coulda fooled me!
27The N word was the southerners way of saying Negro. It wasn't meant to be derogatory it's just the way they shortened the word.
Also, Jesse J is Ghetto and NOT a role model. He fathered several kids while he was married and he makes no qualms about his hate of white people. He even said proudly how he would spit into the glasses of tea, to the white people he served when he worked at a South Carolina country club as a teenager. His hate of white people go way back. When asked if the white people were rude to him at the country club, he said NO, but they were white. How ignorant to think that way, even back then.
28chspitzer
I agree...my comment was flagged but I hope they post it.
29can't stand Jesse J. I wish he would just BLOW AWAY!
30Yep...this is my country
31majorly hypocritical!
32By the early 1800's, the n-word was widely used as a derogatory term for blacks so don't demean our intelligence by trying to claim its a simple southern mispronunciation.
33Lots of men father children while they are married - that's part of the reason people marry. Are you referring to the ONE child he fathered out of wedlock? How is it significant to this conversation?
How has Jackson's 'hatred of white people' manifested in his adult life? Your rant was as much a display of ignorance as any charge you make against him.
He should step down. Old hypocrite. MLK Jr. is spinning in his grave.
34Step down from what?
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