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green73
08-27-2013, 09:44 AM
Jesse Jackson has no doubt that on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Republican opposition to President Obama’s policies is motivated by racial animus reminiscent of the Civil War-era South. “The tea party is the resurrection of the Confederacy, it’s the Fort Sumter tea party,” Jackson told Politico’s Glenn Thrush.

Jackson, who Thrush describes as the man “who more than anyone occupies the no man’s land between his mentor King and Obama,” is “absolutely” convinced that attempts to thwart the president’s agenda are motivated by his race.

The question “To what degree is the partisan gridlock that is frustrating his attempts to govern racially driven?” is one that President Obama himself is “begging to ask,” according to Pulitzer Prize–winning author Taylor Branch. The president can’t broach the topic, Branch said, because “the slightest mention of race could alienate the millions of white Americans who voted for him.”

The half-dozen aides Thrush interviewed for the article disagree with this assessment, saying that they have never heard Obama suggest that race is a factor in the opposition he faces from the GOP. “Bill Clinton was a white guy from the country, and they were just as vituperative,” said one. “But I don’t know what the president thinks about it.”


http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/356851/jesse-jackson-tea-party-resurrection-confederacy-katherine-connell

jbauer
08-27-2013, 09:46 AM
Yup

I want lower taxes and less government. Obviously I'm a racist.

donnay
08-27-2013, 09:51 AM
More distractions...don't look at all the illegal wars!!!

SMFH!

Christian Liberty
08-27-2013, 10:05 AM
They say that like the Confederacy is necessarily bad:p

HOLLYWOOD
08-27-2013, 10:08 AM
CONMEN with FOOLISH followers...

Jesse Jackson, the same clown that calls Manhattan, "Hymietown"

He sure likes calling others, all sorts of derogatory names and labels and how's YOUR big militarized government and 'Stop & Frisk' working out for blacks?

Like father, like son... BTW how's your son doing in Federal Prison?

FrankRep
08-27-2013, 10:18 AM
Limited government is racist.

jmdrake
08-27-2013, 10:27 AM
Jesse Jackson Jr. is going to prison. The judge must be racist.

FloralScent
08-27-2013, 10:29 AM
If only,

thoughtomator
08-27-2013, 10:34 AM
If only it hadn't been slavery they took their stand on, it would be trivial to argue that the Confederacy was right.

TruckinMike
08-27-2013, 10:52 AM
If only it hadn't been slavery they took their stand on, it would be trivial to argue that the Confederacy was right.
The real problem is the fact the the victors control whats in the history texts--> thus the south is evil.

Snew
08-27-2013, 11:01 AM
just ignore that whole Syria thing, whydontcha

FloralScent
08-27-2013, 11:04 AM
If only it hadn't been slavery they took their stand on, it would be trivial to argue that the Confederacy was right.

It was their enemies who played the political master stroke of being 'anti-slavery', while doing nothing to prevent it in the territories they occupied. In fact they said they would not do so in writing.

otherone
08-27-2013, 11:31 AM
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000hCYoc6Q5OVs/s/1000/667/Tea-Party-Rally-Attendees-j240205938.jpg

...That would explain why the South lost. Maybe they should switch to unsweetened tea...

phill4paul
08-27-2013, 11:37 AM
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000hCYoc6Q5OVs/s/1000/667/Tea-Party-Rally-Attendees-j240205938.jpg

...That would explain why the South lost. Maybe they should switch to unsweetened tea...

Doubtful.....

http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Duck_Dynasty_Uncle_Si_Robertson_sweet_tea-490x735.jpg

FSP-Rebel
08-27-2013, 11:51 AM
https://twitter.com/8Atlas2/status/372415874361085952

ctiger2
08-27-2013, 12:12 PM
Jackson profits immensely from racism.

Guaranteed if I could wave a magic wand and disappear all racism worldwide Jackson would vehemently oppose waving that wand.