Posted on 09/29/2004 11:52:30 AM PDT by areafiftyone
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other black political leaders spread a message of victimization that leads most blacks to vote Democratic, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson charged Wednesday.
The HUD secretary said he has advised President Bush's campaign to focus its efforts on younger blacks who did not grow up during the civil rights era because older blacks who did ``have been conditioned'' to vote Democratic by Jesse Jackson, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and others.
``They have made a living telling black people they are victims,'' the HUD secretary said in an interview with The Associated Press. ``As long as they keep them in victim mode, they have liberals who will take care of them.''
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry announced Wednesday that Jesse Jackson has joined the campaign as a senior adviser. The move comes amid recent polling showing Kerry's support slipping among blacks.
The Kerry campaign said Jesse Jackson will travel to battleground states to energize Democratic support for Kerry and running mate John Edwards.
A Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday showed 73 percent of blacks supporting Kerry, down from 83 percent in August. Bush's support among blacks was at 12 percent, up from 6 percent.
The HUD secretary, who said he has been consulting with Bush strategist Karl Rove and other campaign officials, said Republicans are targeting blacks who are under 40 with a message that Bush's economic policies are better for them.
``You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand,'' he said. ``They want us to rise together, they keep telling us that we are victims. If they keep telling us they are victims, then there is a role for them to play.''
My father was VERY prejudiced. I somehow grew up not very prejudiced at all. I thought his "reasons" for looking down on anyone who wasn't just like him was SILLY. My kids have grown up in a totally integrated society, and their friends are all skin colors, creeds, religions, etc. I think if people like Jesse Jackson and Julian Bond would STOP calling attention to skin differences there would soon be no racial prejudice. It would have been gone by now if not for the race baiting pimps like Jackson. There is only ONE RACE - THE HUMAN RACE!
Jesse he goin shuckin and jivin for Kerry.
Proving exactly what the HUD secretary just said. Kerry dodint have a black on his staff so he gets Jesse (Steppinfetchit) Jackson to step in and reel in the black vote.
Right message. Gutsy to say it though, given all the Democrap propaganda.
Mr Jackson will soon be the recipient of some house-nigger, race-traitor, uncle-Tom rhetoric from haughty lefties.
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