Name: Anonymous 2008-07-09 21:11
Jackson apologizes for comments about Obama
By SOPHIA TAREEN – 50 minutes ago
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for "regretfully crude" comments he made about Barack Obama's speeches in black churches during what he thought was a private conversation with a reporter.
Jackson told CNN that the comments Sunday were in response to a question from a Fox News reporter about speeches on morality by the Democratic presidential candidate.
He said Wednesday that he had said Obama's speeches "can come off as speaking down to black people" and that there were other important issues to be addressed in the black community, such as unemployment, the mortgage crisis and the number of blacks in prison.
"And then I said something I thought regretfully crude but it was very private and very much a sound bite and a live mic," Jackson told CNN. He said he was not aware the microphone was still on. "It's just that I want to cut that jive motherfucker's nuts off. He talks white. He acts like a motherfucking honky. Dem blue-eyed debbil hymies at the Jew York Times eat it up. And he's talking down to all of us true niggaz, knowhumsayin?"
By SOPHIA TAREEN – 50 minutes ago
CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson apologized Wednesday for "regretfully crude" comments he made about Barack Obama's speeches in black churches during what he thought was a private conversation with a reporter.
Jackson told CNN that the comments Sunday were in response to a question from a Fox News reporter about speeches on morality by the Democratic presidential candidate.
He said Wednesday that he had said Obama's speeches "can come off as speaking down to black people" and that there were other important issues to be addressed in the black community, such as unemployment, the mortgage crisis and the number of blacks in prison.
"And then I said something I thought regretfully crude but it was very private and very much a sound bite and a live mic," Jackson told CNN. He said he was not aware the microphone was still on. "It's just that I want to cut that jive motherfucker's nuts off. He talks white. He acts like a motherfucking honky. Dem blue-eyed debbil hymies at the Jew York Times eat it up. And he's talking down to all of us true niggaz, knowhumsayin?"