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Jesse Jackson:'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man' (plays race card)
The Hill (via Drudge) ^ | 11-18-09 | Mike Soraghan

Posted on 11/19/2009 8:30:02 AM PST by rawhide

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

Davis, who is running for governor, is the only black member of Congress from Alabama.

He is also the only member of the CBC to have voted against the healthcare bill earlier this month.

Davis referred to Jackson’s 1988 run for president in a statement, issued through his office, that said he would not engage Jackson on his criticism.

“One of the reasons that I like and admire Rev. Jesse Jackson is that 21 years ago he inspired the idea that a black politician would not be judged simply as a black leader,” Davis’s statement said. “The best way to honor Rev. Jackson’s legacy is to decline to engage in an argument with him that begins and ends with race.”

Jackson said later that he "didn't call anybody by name and I won't."...

...Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) said each man was doing what he considered the right thing.

"People have a right to vote their constituency, and people have a right to speak their conscience," Jackson-Lee said. "Both happened."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: black; jackson; race; slavery; voteyourrace
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1 posted on 11/19/2009 8:30:04 AM PST by rawhide
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To: rawhide

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

No, you can for FOR healthcare and call yourself an idiot.


2 posted on 11/19/2009 8:32:20 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: rawhide

I thought black people were free these days, what with slavery having been abolished and all.


3 posted on 11/19/2009 8:33:27 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: admin

Drats! Repost! I searched the word ‘jackson’ before posting and no hits. But saw another thread in ‘Extended News’ after posting. I did another search after posting this thread, and only my thread generates a hit, not the other thread. Drats! Anyway, sorry.


4 posted on 11/19/2009 8:34:37 AM PST by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Keep in mind that Obama isn’t a black man... hes a liberal white woman!
http://www.fugly.com/media/IMAGES/Random/obama_in_drag_again.jpg


5 posted on 11/19/2009 8:36:13 AM PST by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

It is quite ironic that a black president and Jesse Jackson are leading the charge for Americans, of all races, to become slaves.

RIP Black American Freedom, 1865 to 2009

6 posted on 11/19/2009 8:37:18 AM PST by TheDon
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To: rawhide

How about we change a few words — Once you find out about the reparations in the government rationed healthcare, no white guy(or women) could possibly vote for this crap.


7 posted on 11/19/2009 8:38:22 AM PST by Tarpon (To destroy the people's liberties, you poison their morals ...)
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To: rawhide

Thanks for finally coming out and proving that “black” is a political mindset not a skin color...


8 posted on 11/19/2009 8:38:44 AM PST by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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“You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”
Je$$e Jacka$$

"I refuse to have my views dictated to me as if I were an intellectual slave."
Justice Clarance Thomas

9 posted on 11/19/2009 8:39:23 AM PST by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: rawhide
Drats! Repost!

It happens.

10 posted on 11/19/2009 8:40:26 AM PST by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: rawhide

Someone should tell him that standing in a line with your hand out is no way to go throgh life!


11 posted on 11/19/2009 8:42:07 AM PST by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think. " Adolph Hitler)
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To: Wyatt's Torch; Tarpon

Yes, we have an accidental truth escaping from JJ -

it’s stealth reparations. Nothing less.


12 posted on 11/19/2009 8:44:20 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: rawhide

Forgive me, but when this sorry excuse for a human being reaches room temperature, I will not shed a tear. (Jackson, I mean)


13 posted on 11/19/2009 8:44:48 AM PST by Christian4Bush (2010 and 2012 cannot get here soon enough.)
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To: rawhide

Add that to your requirements list titled “What you MUST do/believe to be considered Black enough.” Nothing at all racist about demanding all blacks think alike, otherwise you are off the plantation....

hh


14 posted on 11/19/2009 8:49:51 AM PST by hoosier hick (Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
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To: rawhide

Jess Jackass finally admits that being a "black man" has nothing to do with the color of your skin!

15 posted on 11/19/2009 8:54:47 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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16 posted on 11/19/2009 8:55:21 AM PST by abigail2
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To: rawhide

Who exactly appointed Jesse to the position of G-d?


17 posted on 11/19/2009 8:56:10 AM PST by chris_bdba
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To: rawhide
Jackson sounds as if he is full of hate !
18 posted on 11/19/2009 8:57:23 AM PST by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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To: rawhide
Jackson sounds as if he is full of hate and anger !
19 posted on 11/19/2009 8:57:57 AM PST by timestax (CNNLIES..BIG TIME)
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To: rawhide

How about: “You can’t call yourself a FREE man and a supporter of FREEDOM and vote FOR it!!”


20 posted on 11/19/2009 8:58:43 AM PST by noah (noah)
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