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Jesse Jackson: 'Plantation' comments insult black voters
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Posted on 09/30/2011 1:59:47 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Jesse Jackson: 'Plantation' comments insult black voters

By: Juana Summers September 30, 2011 04:20 PM EDT

Black voters have not been “brainwashed,” and suggesting as much — as Herman Cain and Pat Buchanan have recently — is demeaning and derogatory, Jesse Jackson said Friday.

“Those are very strong words,” the veteran civil rights activist told POLITICO. “It’s both demeaning and insulting.”

Cain, the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and a Republican presidential candidate, on Wednesday told CNN that black voters have been “brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.”

“I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative,” Cain told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.”

On Thursday, Buchanan, an MSNBC contributor, endorsed that view.

“I admire Herman Cain for standing up and going against, if you will, the conventional wisdom, and being a tough African-American businessman who succeeded in a tough world,” Buchanan said.

He said blacks had been hurt by programs championed by Democratic presidents like Lyndon B. Johnson.

“Great Society liberalism has been devastating for the African-American family. … I think what he’s saying that they bought an awful lot of liberal propaganda on the liberal plantation, and I think he’s right,” Buchanan said.

Jackson criticized Buchanan for openly misconstruing Johnson’s record, whom he called one of the “most transformative presidents of the last century.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cain; democratplantation; democrats; elections; hermancain; jackson; jessejackson; plantation; racecard; votecain
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To: Sub-Driver

Jessie be all riled up ‘cause he be think’n he’s going to loose his plantation workers. Jessie, meet a real and proud man, Herman Cain. By the way, I would like to see Jessie’s income tax returns - I bet he is one of those rich folk - the ones who takes from the po.


21 posted on 09/30/2011 2:16:17 PM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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To: sappy

LOL!


22 posted on 09/30/2011 2:17:52 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: Sub-Driver

At first I thought it was a rash statement for Cain to make, but now I’m starting to think he may have laid a trap. His actual statement was:

“So it’s just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.”

Not being open-minded. That’s the key phrase here. If they are going to protest Cain’s statement, then they will need to (1) declare they are open to conservative ideas, and (2) give some tangible example of being open-minded to conservative ideas.

Which of course, opens the crack into the monolithic black vote Cain can then exploit.


23 posted on 09/30/2011 2:19:51 PM PDT by Brookhaven (Why Not Herman Cain?)
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To: don-o
As Ann Coulter opined years ago, during the hot times in Iraq: "What about the War on Poverty? How about an exit strategy from that quagmire?
24 posted on 09/30/2011 2:20:20 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Sub-Driver

This from one of the Plantation owners.


25 posted on 09/30/2011 2:22:18 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Sub-Driver

selective rage


26 posted on 09/30/2011 2:22:56 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle

hey Jesse, do any nut hunting lately?


27 posted on 09/30/2011 2:24:02 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Sub-Driver

Jesse Jackson is the Slave Manager on the democrat party plantation.

As long as blacks listen to Jackson, they will remain hopeless and enslaved.


28 posted on 09/30/2011 2:29:40 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: tcrlaf

waay down upon the Saawaneee River...


29 posted on 09/30/2011 2:30:30 PM PDT by Surrounded_too
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To: Sub-Driver

These remarks from Jesse Jackson, “The Hymie Hater”!!! You got to be kidding me!!! Folks, kindly disregard whatever comes from Jesse’s Black racist mouth. Why? Black Americans are slowly, but surely getting it!!! They know they’ve been had by Obama, the CBC and the NAACP!!! Would love to see Cain for POTUS & Rubio for VP. That ticket would destroy the Democrat Party overnight!!! Black folk wake up & get with the program that works for your best interests. And.....it ain’t with following Jesse Jackson and Barack Hussein Obama!!! America is getting ready to rise once again, and this time Black folk if they are smart and have common sense will rise along with America!!! Broom Obama, broom Jackson, broom the CBC, broom the NAACP and finally, really be free and equal!!!


30 posted on 09/30/2011 2:32:02 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
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To: Sub-Driver

Isn’t Jesse Jackson more of a real cracker than any white guy?

Isn’t his job to keep everyone else in line?


31 posted on 09/30/2011 2:37:43 PM PDT by Eagle Eye (Proud to be a RINO.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Jesse, the majority of your devotees live on the Federal Plantation.


32 posted on 09/30/2011 2:38:11 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Cain/Rubio?)
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To: Sub-Driver

FU, Jesse Jackoff.


33 posted on 09/30/2011 2:50:02 PM PDT by Levante
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To: Sub-Driver
Jesse Jackson crosses the street when he see's guys that sound and look like Herman Cain approach him.

Jesse is scared of the truth.

34 posted on 09/30/2011 3:10:48 PM PDT by dancusa (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. W. Churchill)
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To: Sub-Driver

this justus brother is still ticked he wasn’t the first aa to receive the nomination for prez.

it’s time to CAIN obama in 2012!


35 posted on 09/30/2011 3:18:03 PM PDT by ealgeone (obama, border)
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To: Sub-Driver

Jesse pulled his pants up long enough to comment on this issue?


36 posted on 09/30/2011 3:19:04 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Time to move forward not to the center.)
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To: RockinRight

Je$$ie Jack$on: The man who paid off MLK’s assassin, so that he could take over.


37 posted on 09/30/2011 3:24:41 PM PDT by reg45 (I'm not angry that Lincoln freed the slaves. I'm angry that Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.)
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To: don-o
"I'll have them ni**ers voting Democratic for two hundred years."

President Lyndon Johnson

38 posted on 09/30/2011 3:36:24 PM PDT by JPG (Palin '12)
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To: Sacajaweau

39 posted on 09/30/2011 3:38:32 PM PDT by conservativeimage
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Jesse, Here is a “Stong” acronym..

GFY, you snake oil salesman.


40 posted on 09/30/2011 3:46:27 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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