Posted on 08/25/2008 3:46:37 PM PDT by STARWISE
Yep, that is interesting.
It is also apparent that people who use the term Uncle Tom as a pejorative either haven’t read Uncle Tom’s Cabin or read it with a completely different world view than mine.
Uncle Tom (a fictional character, by the way)was a courageous Christian man who risked his life to help others but trusted in his Savior to take care of him. One may argue that God does not call us to that kind of sacrifice. But one cannot deny that Tom walked his convictions with courage and integrity. If he were a historical figure, I would call him a hero.
~~DING, DING !
“...This is not the Emil Jones I knew.”
Emil Jones, Kingmaker,was just on the ConventionCoverage/
Funny, not a word about he handed legislation that was the longterm work of others right over to Obama, so it could be associated with him.....even though it was nothing legislation, still , Obama needed something he could hang his hat on.
Jones, with the Uncle Tom statement, though, looks like a perfect bookend with Reverend Wright.
This is more fun than a barrel of.....feminists!!!!!
NOW president calls for Jones' resignation The chief of Illinois’ National Organization for Women chapter today called on Barack Obama’s “political godfather” to resign immediately from the Illinois state Senate for calling an African-American Hillary Clinton delegate an “Uncle Tom.”
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Jones took Obama, the 'pushy' organizer, under his wing
August 24, 2008 What stood out about the skinny, 25-year-old community organizer the first time Emil Jones met him?
"He was a little pushy," the president of the Illinois Senate recalls of Barack Obama.
Jones was just a state senator back in 1985 when he noticed a handful of people gathering down the block from his South Side district office. Jones walked over to see what they were up to.
It wasn't till he read about it in Obama's book, years later, that he realized the group had been gathering to organize a protest.
"I sort of startled them by warmly greeting them," Jones said, sitting in his state office in Chicago's Thompson Center. "They were organizing to get some attention for the dropout rate at Fenger High School. I had the same concerns, so I invited them in to my office. We sat down and had a dialogue. They weren't just there to complain. They actually had solutions to the problem."
Years later, Jones would welcome Obama into the state Senate and help shepherd him into the U.S. Senate.
But back then, Obama was just a "pushy" community organizer who Jones still found himself liking.
"I liked him from the start," Jones said. "I felt that he was genuinely sincere."
Jones got used to seeing Obama bring community residents to his district office or down to Springfield on issues from community development to education. Jones and Obama would go out to lunch or for coffee.
"I thought he was very bright and intelligent and very sincere," Jones said. "You meet people in this business that are plastic, and he was not. I thought he had a very strange name, but I never questioned him."
Some Obama critics have said that, by working closely with Jones once he got to Springfield, Obama betrayed his reformist credentials because Jones came from the "machine" wing of the Democratic party, not the liberal, independent wing Obama was supposed to represent.
"Machine," Jones spat out the word. "Now, I don't know what that means. I came up through the political organization of Wilson Frost."
Frost was an African-American alderman and Democratic committeeman who served as president pro tem of the Chicago City Council under the late Mayor Richard J. Daley.
Jones said he just remembers Obama as a hard worker who, on his first day in the state Senate, volunteered to take on any thankless projects. Jones remembers Obama's comments after the Democrats won the majority in the state Senate in 2003, making Jones president.
"He came to me and he said, 'You're the Senate president. You have a lot of power,' " Jones recalled.
"I said, 'I do? What kind of power do I have?' He said, 'You have the power to make a United States senator.' 'Oh? I didn't realize that. If I have that kind of power, do you know of anyone I could make a United States senator?' He said, 'Me.' He caught me by surprise. I said, 'Let me think about it.' And we continued to talk, and I told him, 'That sounds good. Let's go for it.' That started the campaign."
Jones announced his retirement last week, following a controversial Chicago tradition of waiting until after the primary election so that the Democratic Ward committeemen, rather than voters choose his replacement. Following another Chicago tradition, he suggested and the committeemen agreed, to nominate his son, Emil Jones III. Jones III is expected to have little trouble beating Republican Ray Wardingly in November.
Not that you know of!
....its Ok for him to call someone an uncle Tom. Hell, they will probably give him some sort of award at the next naacp rally.
People just cant get it through their heads that what is wrong for a white person to do is completely fine for a black person. Kwame Kilpatrick is another prime example of this sickening double standard. This idiot should be in jail right now but he's in Denver enjoying the convention.
Of course not ... it’s the Chicago/Illinois Way = fifedoms.
Shouldn't NOW's Clinton administration "One Grope" rule protect Jones?
Just as Clinton supposedly quit after only one sexually harassing grope, Jones only called "Uncle Tom" once and quit when it was clear they didn't like being called Uncle Tom.
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Leave it to the femi nazi’s to call for his resignation right before he retires anyway....(eye roll)
~~DING!
Commie/socialist gotta do what a commie/socialist gotta do.
And inserts his unqualified son right in his lot ... blatant nepotism .. and it is the Chicago Way.
Don’t think he’ll be seen there.
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Obama camp says Detroit mayor unwelcome in Denver
Democratic candidate Barack Obama doesn’t want the embattled mayor of Detroit on hand when Obama accepts the party’s presidential nomination in Denver.
A spokesman for Obama said Thursday that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick would be a distraction if he goes to the convention as a superdelegate.
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