Bye Bye Jesse (Guest Voice)
This Guest Voice post is by talk show host Michael Reagan, who is also the son of the late President Ronald Reagan. In it, he writes about Jesse Jackson’s political suicide by mouth. Guest Voice posts do not necessarily represent the opinions of TMV or its writers.
Bye-Bye, Jesse
by Michael Reagan
It’s no wonder Rev. Jesse Jackson wants to neuter Barack Obama — after all, that’s exactly what Obama has done to him.
He may be apologizing for his remarks, claiming lamely that he didn’t know there was a live microphone eavesdropping on what he said, but he meant exactly what he was overheard saying because that’s exactly what he’d like to do.
In his mind, he has every reason to want to take a cutting knife to Obama’s private parts in retribution for his own public loss of manhood at Obama’s hands.
Thanks to the ascendancy of Barack Obama, Jesse’s long reign as THE Black leader — a position he more or less shared with the Rev. Al Sharpton all these years — has finally come to an end. He’s been dethroned by, and lost his political manhood to, an upstart politician barely dry behind the ears but clever beyond his years.
Jesse has long been the self-appointed leader of black America, a race baiter who has used race baiting to feather his own nest, bludgeoning cowardly American businessmen to pay him tribute in the form of contributions to his Rainbow Coalition and sundry other causes.
That’s all over now. The king is dead, long live the new king; and the old king is seething with resentment over his loss of the monarchy he occupied for so long.
By achieving the exalted status as the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party — which along with the media has long groveled at Jesse’s feet — Obama has in one painful stroke lopped off Jesse’s manhood. He is the man of the hour, in one cruel stroke making Jesse a thing of the past.
How that must hurt the self-appointed leader of the nation’s African-American community which despite Jesse’s attempts to keep them enslaved on his plantation have made enough huge strides as to have one of their number striding confidently towards the presidency of the United States.
Rooted in the past, Jesse is mad. Jesse is angry. Jesse is upset. It drives him up a wall when Obama echoes Bill Cosby by demanding that his fellow African-American men assume the responsibilities of fatherhood.
By so doing, Obama neuters Jesse, who always blames an alleged racist white America for the failure of many black fathers to act like fathers.
That’s not talking down to blacks, that’s telling his fellow blacks what they need to hear. After all, all of us, black and white men alike, need to be real fathers in our homes. It’s not a race issue, it’s not a political issue. It’s a moral issue. Obama sees that. Jesse can’t.
Obama neuters Jesse when he echoes the hated George Bush in favoring a faith-based initiative. The fact that a black American is taking such positions which are counter-intuitive to Jesse’s, emasculates Jesse, especially when many black Americans applaud Obama for doing so.
Obama has not only neutered Jesse, he has for the most part gagged him by making just about everything Jesse says sound irrelevant and passé. Obama looks ahead. Jesse looks back on a now-dead past.
Jesse’s fellow blacks have bolted Jesse’s plantation and moved so far ahead that are on the verge of having one of their number win the White House, and doing it by winning the votes of vast numbers of white Americans, an affront to Jesse who would have us believe that white America is a racist America which would never cast a vote for an African American.
That can’t happen in Jesse’s world and the fact that it might well happen in November has rendered Jesse’s voice a voice from a now-dead past that Barack Obama has forever silenced.
It’s not Obama’s manhood that’s been sliced off, it’s Jesse’s and he doesn’t like it one little bit. Obama has foreclosed on his plantation, and freed his fellow blacks from Jesse’s grip.
Bye-bye, Jesse.
Mike Reagan, the elder son of the late President Ronald Reagan, is heard on more than 200 talk radio stations nationally as part of the Radio America Network. ©2008 Mike Reagan. Mike’s column is distributed exclusively by: Cagle Cartoons, Inc., Cari Dawson Bartley.
7 Responses to “Bye Bye Jesse (Guest Voice)”
I agree- I think that Jesse dislikes Obama so much because Obama is not one of “Jesse's boys” (if you will): Obama has his own ideas and Jesse can not control or influence him.
A post worthy of People magazine. with insights reminiscent of Ann Landers.
I was shocked by the open racism dsiplayed in rural America during the primaries, but the condescension towards blacks shown in this, supposedly more sophisticated, article is worse, in some ways. This comes pretty close to giving the credit for Obama's success, not to Obama or other blacks, but to the magnificent beneficience of white America.towards its black, often wayward, fellow citizens (sarcasm intended).
By demeaning Jesse Jackson, this article blithely skips over the chapter recounting that the Obamas of today would not be possible without the Jesse Jackson's of yesterday. Jeckson, btw, comes from the same 'plantation' that MLK lived on, another black leader villified during his lifetime for his politicallly incorrect ways.
Obama is non-confrontational about race, unlike Jackson, not because it's inherently right, but because it's what works. It's pragmatic, and it's this kind of pragmatism that will get other blacks off of the plantation.
But it was Jackson's confrontatonalism that gave many blacks the will and the spine to claw their way far enough from the plantation to make pragmatism possible.
It sets race relations back several steps if the clash between Jackson and Obama is made to be some sort of morality lesson.
Some whites relish the sight of Jackson going down simply because it's soothing not to have to face the uncomfortable truths the Jesse Jacksons of our society want to have them confront.
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There is no condescension. Jackson is a dinosaur from a radical past who has long been not only irrelevent but toxic to the black community as well as similar “leaders” [sic].
Morality is at the center of what Obama was discussing (too close to Jackson's case for comfort, no doubt) and despite what some on the Left may say or decry, there is such a thing as good versus bad, better versus worse, right versus wrong.
There not only is no condescension, there is no contempt, and Jackson deserves contempt.
“J”ackson deserves contempt”"…………..so bigots say.
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