Posted on 09/30/2011 1:59:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Jesse Jackson: 'Plantation' comments insult black voters
By: Juana Summers September 30, 2011 04:20 PM EDT
Black voters have not been “brainwashed,” and suggesting as much — as Herman Cain and Pat Buchanan have recently — is demeaning and derogatory, Jesse Jackson said Friday.
“Those are very strong words,” the veteran civil rights activist told POLITICO. “It’s both demeaning and insulting.”
Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and a Republican presidential candidate, on Wednesday told CNN that black voters have been “brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.”
“I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative,” Cain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.”
On Thursday, Buchanan, an MSNBC contributor, endorsed that view.
“I admire Herman Cain for standing up and going against, if you will, the conventional wisdom, and being a tough African-American businessman who succeeded in a tough world,” Buchanan said.
He said blacks had been hurt by programs championed by Democratic presidents like Lyndon B. Johnson.
“Great Society liberalism has been devastating for the African-American family. … I think what he’s saying that they bought an awful lot of liberal propaganda on the liberal plantation, and I think he’s right,” Buchanan said.
Jackson criticized Buchanan for openly misconstruing Johnson’s record, whom he called one of the “most transformative presidents of the last century.”
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Jessie be all riled up ‘cause he be think’n he’s going to loose his plantation workers. Jessie, meet a real and proud man, Herman Cain. By the way, I would like to see Jessie’s income tax returns - I bet he is one of those rich folk - the ones who takes from the po.
LOL!
At first I thought it was a rash statement for Cain to make, but now I’m starting to think he may have laid a trap. His actual statement was:
“So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.”
Not being open-minded. That’s the key phrase here. If they are going to protest Cain’s statement, then they will need to (1) declare they are open to conservative ideas, and (2) give some tangible example of being open-minded to conservative ideas.
Which of course, opens the crack into the monolithic black vote Cain can then exploit.
This from one of the Plantation owners.
selective rage
hey Jesse, do any nut hunting lately?
Jesse Jackson is the Slave Manager on the democrat party plantation.
As long as blacks listen to Jackson, they will remain hopeless and enslaved.
waay down upon the Saawaneee River...
These remarks from Jesse Jackson, “The Hymie Hater”!!! You got to be kidding me!!! Folks, kindly disregard whatever comes from Jesse’s Black racist mouth. Why? Black Americans are slowly, but surely getting it!!! They know they’ve been had by Obama, the CBC and the NAACP!!! Would love to see Cain for POTUS & Rubio for VP. That ticket would destroy the Democrat Party overnight!!! Black folk wake up & get with the program that works for your best interests. And.....it ain’t with following Jesse Jackson and Barack Hussein Obama!!! America is getting ready to rise once again, and this time Black folk if they are smart and have common sense will rise along with America!!! Broom Obama, broom Jackson, broom the CBC, broom the NAACP and finally, really be free and equal!!!
Isn’t Jesse Jackson more of a real cracker than any white guy?
Isn’t his job to keep everyone else in line?
Jesse, the majority of your devotees live on the Federal Plantation.
FU, Jesse Jackoff.
Jesse is scared of the truth.
this justus brother is still ticked he wasn’t the first aa to receive the nomination for prez.
it’s time to CAIN obama in 2012!
Jesse pulled his pants up long enough to comment on this issue?
Je$$ie Jack$on: The man who paid off MLK’s assassin, so that he could take over.
President Lyndon Johnson
Hey Jesse, Here is a “Stong” acronym..
GFY, you snake oil salesman.
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