Old prejudices die hard and it appears that the race prejudice once thought to be in its death throes isn’t, and is alive and well. Two of the purveyors of race animosity, boarding on pure hatred, are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. They have never seen a situation they couldn’t turn into a white on black carnival to display their stupidity and prejudice. Those two parade around the nation calling themselves “reverends,” but from all appearances based on their conduct, they are like the Pharisees of old whose hearts were far from God. Just like the Pharisees who stirred up trouble, Jackson and Sharpton are hate mongers of the worst kind, always looking to stir up the black people and the whites who are in the same “stupid league.”

Luke recorded in Acts 17:26-28: And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. To be blunt, the idea of race is a phony issue of the likes of smarmy politicians and those of the ilk of the two reverends, who ignore the fact that the issue of race is definitely foreign to the scriptures. If the two reverends would practice the truth as spoken by Paul, everyone would be the better for it.

The more Jackson speaks the more absurd he becomes regarding race and any other issue he chooses for pontification and bellowing. He ripped Barack Obama for "acting like he's white" since Obama didn’t rush to Jena to stick his nose into the issue. Jackson and Sharpton both decry racism, and then Jackson makes the racist statement about Obama’s race characteristics. Do you see why it was written that Jackson is a hate monger? Obama’s too white to suit Jackson or maybe it is he isn’t black enough for Jesse. Jackson demeans the black part by using the white portion, but in the process he recognizes the white portion by accusing Obama of acting white. Now which is it Jesse? Is Obama black or is he white?  Absurd? To the max!

That brings us to another issue of absurdity. Obama, it has been said, is America’s hope for the future. For which “race” is he the hope? Is it the blacks or the whites or both? If you think about it, you will see the absurdity of those questions and also the absurdity of Jackson saying of Obama’s [he’s] "acting like he's white"… Why is it absurd?  Barack Obama’s mother is white and his father is black. How under any use of logic and reason can Obama be called black? For that matter he can’t claim to be white (he doesn’t) because it would cause him to lose the black vote. If black and white is the issue, then he has to be for both skin colors. But he is using the black part of his whiteness to pander to the blacks who see him as their hope which is patent nonsense no matter the skin color.

During the week of September 25, 2007, Rep. John Conyers called for an investigation into the miscarriages of justice in Jena. The real miscarriage is if the assailants in that case aren’t prosecuted. It seems that skin color is the only determinate for Conyers, Jackson, and Sharpton as all they can see is black. When the perps are white they call for a lynching (The Duke case for example.), but when the perps are black, it is a miscarriage of justice. They decry racism of white on black but are silent about black on white. That is hypocrisy and racism to the core.

Sharpton’s claim fits the blustering of Conyers in that he says the Jena situation isn’t about race and only concerns justice. But, no matter what takes place, Jackson and Sharpton will turn it into a race issue. Yes, it is about justice but not of the type Conyer’s and the other two are pushing. It is about a mob of kids assaulting another kid for which they had no warrant of any kind, no matter the reasons that have been given to excuse it. The excuse for Jackson and Sharpton was that nooses were hung in a tree, which was stupid, but kids do stupid things. Yet, there isn’t any law against it. That makes no difference to the two “reverends” (or Conyers) since they want the white kids prosecuted for an act that isn’t a crime. As Sharpton bellowed about their (the “reverends”) being there to demand justice: "We're going to walk past the scene of the crime, where this tree was …

What crime Mr. Sharpton? It’s not about the race quotient. The issue is about one set of humans beating on another human. In Sorting It Out, if being stupid was a crime, you, Conyers, and Jackson would be first class felons having been found guilty as charged.

© 09-23-2007 DEC