Carol Platt Liebau: A Valentine from Jesse

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

A Valentine from Jesse

Here, the ever-increasingly ridiculous and irrelevant Jesse Jackson argues -- in effect -- that people shouldn't attend funerals unless either they agreed with all the political views of the deceased or they're willing to be attacked politically.

Or, at least, that's his opinion about President Bush and the Coretta King funeral. How silly. What a great way to destroy the shreds of commonality and civility that still unite us.

While Jesse Jackson is bloviating about the funeral, he remains staunchly silent about the terrible troubles afflicting the African American community -- problems that might actually require some work, rather than speechifying in expensive suits and flying around on private planes.

Need something real to do, Mr. Jackson? Read this piece by John McWhorter -- "How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back" -- and then get to work.

I'm not holding my breath.

1 Comments:

Blogger David said...

"I'm not holding my breath."

And a very good thing it is that you are not, Carol--on at least two fronts. If it were possible for you to hold your breath until JJ actually addressed real problems in the "Black community" (now, there's as divisive a term as has ever been devised), we'd have to hold an all-too-early funeral for you--a bad thing, IMO.

OTOH, holding your breath at all—for any length of time—for the likes of JJ would mean we'd miss your trenchant commentary during those breathless moments.

Again, a thing to be avoided at all costs.

Keep telling it like it is, 'K?

:-)

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