Jackson: Gilbert Sees LeBron As A “Runaway Slave”; Still Silent On The New Black Panthers

Eyeblast TV / The Blast ^ | 7/12/2010

[blog.Eyeblast.tv]

On Sunday, Jesse Jackson criticized Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert saying his remarks in the open letter he released to the people of Cleveland after LeBron James announced he’ll be leaving to join the Miami Heat was akin to calling James a “runaway slave.”

Jackson says the comments were “mean, arrogant, and presumptuous.”

“He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers,” the reverend said in a release from his Chicago-based civil rights group, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. “His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship—between business partners—and LeBron honored his contract.”

[Migraine]

He personally creates the need for a new word that goes beyond hyperbole. He is a race hustler, a pimp, a shakedown artist, a flim-flam man, a soup-spitter, an unwed playa, an extortionist, a payer of extortion, a Dr. Seuss-ish rhymer, a bamboozler, an interloper, a busybody, a limousine liberal, a self-absorbed manchild, and a stereotype of himself.
Other than that he’s probably OK.

[Williford]

I didn’t think runaway slaves made 10 bazillion dollars a year. I guess I’m confused. Jesse is only looking for another mark to shake down.

[Founding Father]

and a black man responds:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/Jesse-Jackson-LeBron-James-Dan-Gilbert-slavery-comparison-071210

[RVN Airplane Driver]

You could have said he gives the “N” word a whole new meaning!

[RightFighter]

As I told my son the night of the big announcement, the only thing that LeBron could do if he wanted to look classy was stay in Cleveland. The way he tried to dress it up as if the “decision” was agonizing for him was cute, but the lie was shown by the over-the-top introduction ceremony they had in Miami, which CLEARLY had been planned for weeks.

The Cavs owner is exactly right. If LeBron had any class and any loyalty to Cleveland at all, he’d have let the CAVS know first, not the Heat, as he claimed in his “interview” with Jim Grey.

[MinuteGal]

Note to white guys in authority anywhere in this nation: DON'T criticize black entertainers, politicians, sports figures, Presidents, academia, etal or you'll be marked as racist pigs.

Racist pigs in the DC ruling class and the marxist media are exempt.

Alinsky rules apply now.....isolate, attack and destroy. So it is directed by the Racist-in-Chief in the Black House (gotta be careful what I write here).

Leni

[antiRepublicrat]

Can this be the moment when Jackson officially jumps the shark, even in the eyes of blacks?

[ash-housewares]

Jackson is, always has been an opportunist and verbal arsonist; and is commonly regarded as such. My nightmare is that the Stimulator-in-Chief weighs in again. LeBron did not go to the Bulls, this is true. I know Gibbs was upset about it:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/11/obama-to-play-hoops-with-lebron-james/

But please, Obama, just stay out of it. Thank you

[Dr. Ursus]

Never,pimpin’ against the “Man” always sell in tha hood!

[bray]

Jesse Jackmail hates Whitey.

[alexander_busek]

Are we talking about ice hockey, here, baseball, basketball, or what?

Seriously: Is Jackson claiming to somehow "know" that Dan Gilbert wouldn't have expressed himself as he did if LeBron James had been White? Or that Gilbert "tailored" his words to reflect the fact that James is Black? Or maybe that a Black team owner would never have expressed himself that way?

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[Global2010]

Get with it! 10 mill is reperations (the land and a mule).
/SARC

[Celerity]

“Jackson says the comments were “mean, arrogant, and presumptuous.” “

And no one knows “Mean, Arrogant and Presumptuous” like good ol’ Jessie.

“If Elected, I will put the White man in the Cabinet!”

[MEGoody]

I guess Jesse was afraid people would forget about him, so he has to raise a fuss about some made up racism like he always does.

[Oldpuppymax]

Maybe Jesse figures he’ll be able to shake down Gilbert??!!

[mrmeyer]

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915.)

[nasube]

Well, I don’t know that a “black man” automatically has any more credibility on the topic than anyone else, just because James played the greedy fool big time and probably messed himself up big time and Jessuh Jackass has, as usual, made things much worseput race where it wasn’t really an issue.

Mel Gibson said some stupid stuff, and he’s white-are whites, therefore, the only ones who can or should talk about it, or judge it? Of course not. And when blacks do/say stupid stuff, they don’t have a monopoly on opinions

That said, Whitlock is right about some of it-but he has a high wrong to right ratio in his articles, as a whole-including here, calling Limbaugh and Hannity (!) bigots.