Blixy Sticks

Why Blixy? The only invective I implied is that Jackson is no different than the majority of the countless others in positions of authority, power and influence, regardless of their political persuasion. He is an opportunist, according to the Book, Shakedown. Apparently, he is exploiting the race card for personal gain at the potential expense of widening the gap between white and black race relations.

I posted a review from an African American that read the book. The individual was rather dismayed about Jessie Jackson's lack of character, to say the least. It was that individual's words that were chock full of invective, FYI, so why not take your argument up with them. As far as I'm concerned, it's a foregone conclusion. Jessie Jackson is as much a charlatan as Dubbya, so why use this prop made of balsa wood to bolster your argument concerning racism?

smugg

If, when you say racism, you mean racial prejudice or hard feelings along racial lines, then I suppose I could let you get away with this statement. If, however, you are referring to the practice of systemic economic, educational, and legal oppression based on ethnicity, then you're just silly.

Loren Pechtel

Jesse Jackson isn't the *CAUSE* of poverty. What he is is a force keeping blacks in poverty.

Loren Pechtel

I've never said there wasn't discrimination. There most certainly was. However, *MOST* of it is a thing of the past.

Loren Pechtel

I will definitely second this. Very good book!

Loren Pechtel

Read that book! There's *FAR* too much to reproduce in a message.

Loren Pechtel

However, I see Jesse Jackson as doing far more harm than any remaining perpetrators of racism. People know to fight racism, but they accept Jesse Jackson's words--thus permitting him to do great harm.

Calzaer

Still waiting for a concrete example. Any example will do. Quote it out of that book, if you like. But I really need to see an example before I just go ahead and buy into the "Jesse Jackson is Worse Than a Lynch Mob" campaign.

Loren: HOW is Jesse keeping blacks in poverty?

contracycle

Now the preaching I'm against. His exposure of racism I'm all for.

Becuase its all sorted out now and everybody is happy and we live in a non-racist world. Sound like Utopianism to me.

Well, that seems the most likely conclusion, yes. Unless there were some indication that a distinct other reason was more likely to explain the phenomenon. Btu given institutionalised racism of recent provenance is a known factor in the American situation, evidence for this NOT being racism would have to be strong.

Becuase they are eeeeeeevil ambulance chasers. That must be it.

In which case, it becomes rather absurd to premise a position on the fact that that its been perfectly eradicated and that therefore any attmepts to address its legacy are the domain of "political correctness". But what I was addressing specifically bu this comparison are the attacks aimed at Jackson: he is personally demonised as the purveyor of falshoods, just some would have us believe that the world was conned about the Holocaust.

And the net result is that prevailing racism is legitmised - becuase of course its all history so it can't be happening now. Thus is the blind eye turned.

contracycle

Nonsense, it is not racist. It is not a false or malicious attribution of racism to caucasians. The historicla problems that America needs to deal with is white-on-black racism, hardly vice versa, becuase the power relationship is largely one way.

And this is indeed one of the spurious apologisms for racisms that is correctly associated with critics of Jackson et al. and gives clear evidence of the racist motives driving the criticism.

Straw man. Racism can and does exist among all people. But the Western states are not an abstract sample of the world, they have their own particular histories and they need to be addressed realistically.