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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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To: rawhide

Let me get this straight, the Obama supporters voted him in for free gas, free mortgage payoffs, free money and now Jesse wants free medical care too? Geeeez, lots of free stuff when you vote Democrat! I’m registering, I want some of that free stuff too.


21 posted on 11/19/2009 9:00:55 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Beware of the Palin Tsunami!!!)
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To: rawhide

“You can’t pass a KFC without going in and call yourself a black man” (same thing)


22 posted on 11/19/2009 9:01:06 AM PST by albie
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To: albie
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23 posted on 11/19/2009 9:05:03 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: rawhide

Oh, sure you can. It’s easy.


24 posted on 11/19/2009 9:05:04 AM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
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To: MrB

Stealth reparations. That is those words describes Obama’s as Obama’s whole agenda and covers, stimulus, health care and cap and trade. Now, after this prick has ruin the econo my and dug the government into a deep hole, he comes back from Asia and starts this bullshit about deficits. The deficit he is mostly responsible for creating.


25 posted on 11/19/2009 9:10:53 AM PST by Americanexpat
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To: rawhide
You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man

Jesse, why not humor me?

What does a government takeover of healthcare and "being a black man" have to do with each other? Who gave the signal that being "black" meant being for this power-grab?

If you, Jesse Jackson, can coherently explain what you're talking about, I'm all ears.

26 posted on 11/19/2009 9:12:46 AM PST by PallMal
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To: Americanexpat

I’ve been chastised for saying that EVERY policy agenda item of 0bama’s has been stealth reparations.

Sorry, I’m long past suppressing the truth in order not to appear to be rude.


27 posted on 11/19/2009 9:22:28 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

I don’t the JJ has the power he once did. He jumped the shark years ago.


28 posted on 11/19/2009 9:25:51 AM PST by jjm2111
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To: MarineBrat

I would like to vote against the Healthcare and call myself a white man.


29 posted on 11/19/2009 9:37:01 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: rawhide
Jesse Jackson:'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'

That's par for Jesse Jackass.

Con-artist, scammer, extortionist par excellence, adulterer, bastard daddy...

Did I miss anything?

30 posted on 11/19/2009 9:58:39 AM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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To: rawhide

When JJ or that Cowardly Lion-looking whackoff fellow phony Rev. Sharpton open their facial anuses to talk, I’m reminded of a Biblical verse (in Proverbs?) The gist of it is that the world cannot last long after the fools are made the kings.....


31 posted on 11/19/2009 10:36:12 AM PST by Mac from Cleveland (Dreams from My Father--food, shelter, and education from some typical white folks)
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To: Publius6961

hypocrite, race-baiter, anti-white, anti-Jewish, socialist...


32 posted on 11/19/2009 11:28:10 AM PST by getarope (One Big Ass Mistake, America!)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

I was thinking the same thing. Is he saying that all black people need to be taken care of? Sounds like slavery to me.


33 posted on 11/19/2009 12:18:04 PM PST by super7man
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To: super7man

Jessie Jackson is the Emperor of Black people, didn’t you know that?


34 posted on 11/19/2009 12:37:27 PM PST by GraceG
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