Jackson's unkind cutting remarks

Colbert King:

If the Rev. Jesse Jackson has trouble with something Sen. Barack Obama has said, why does Jackson wish to have the senator from Illinois neutered?

Don't get me wrong.

Jackson is within his rights to charge -- as he did in a Fox TV studio this week -- that Obama's pitch for federally supported faith-based initiatives is "talking down to black people." I don't share that assessment.

But here's what nags at me: If Jackson's problem is with the words leaving Obama's mouth, why does he want to relieve the man of his testicles?

Jackson, in a comment caught on a microphone that he thought was turned off, said of Obama: "I wanna cut his nuts off."

Pray tell: Wouldn't it make more sense for Jackson to conjure up a response directly related to Obama's action, such as, well, calling for the removal of his tongue -- as in the biblical injunction: "If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away?"

('Course, the reference is to your own eye, not someone else's.)

But castration?

What a curious punishment.

The mere thought causes me to cross my legs.

But if the notion of rendering the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee infertile sounds ludicrous, consider who would do the slicing and dicing? None other than the reverend himself. "I wanna cut," declared he.

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To answer Colbert's question, Jackson has made a fortune off his white guilt shakedown racket. He saw Obama's speech on personal responsibility as a threat to that racket. It is why he and many in the civil rights establishment are so angry with Bill Cosby.

When someone speaks truth to the civil rights power structure they want to neuter the speech are the speaker so they can continue to benefit from collective punishment of those who had nothing to do with their grievances.

Jackson whispered his complaint because it is considered bad politics to confront a fellow black politician. I suspect that too had something to do with his anger.