Comments on: Sharpton to Obama: “Just because you’re our color doesn’t make you our kind”

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Jesse Jackson: “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man”

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:59:30 +0000

[...] getting demagogued by this race-baiting bottom-feeder helps him in the same way that getting demagogued by Sharpton early on helped The One. In fact, it’s useful enough that I might suspect collusion, if not for the [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama “acting like he’s white,” says Jackson

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:37:46 +0000

[...] odious “just because you’re our color doesn’t make you our kind” crack from February but no less transparent in its fear of usurpation by Obama’s post-racial potential, [...]

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insignificant thoughts » Blog Archive » links for 2007-02-15 — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:27:03 +0000

[...] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Sharpton to Obama: “Just because you’re our color doesn’t make you our kind” Al Sharpton talks about colors and kind. Typical of the race-baiting piece of garbage he is. (tags: sharpton racist bullshit obama) [...]

By: TheThink » A possible reason why Barack Obama may never be elected President.

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:35:36 +0000

[...] Instead of allowing Barack Obama to play the position he wants to play — he attends an “unashamedly black” church, realizes that public visual perception of blackness is still predicated on the one drop rule, and he undoubtedly loves his “Swiss Miss” mother to death — Americans are acting like obsessive compulsive lovers who need to know. Need to know exactly, to the nth degree of precision, how black Barack Obama is. [...]

By: georgej

georgej — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:26:00 +0000

Osama, er, Obama did serious damage to his candidacy with the “wasted” remark. Our local news is repeating that he apologized *again* for the remark.

If the Republicans DO NOT EXPLOIT this, should he get the nomination, they deserve to lose the 2008 election.

By: Tantor

Tantor — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:27:15 +0000

So, in Sharpton’s view, you’re not black until he says you’re black? Apparently, the test for being black includes being a lefty.

My question is how Sharpton became the moral arbiter of the Left and since when has Sharpton ever worked for the public good? Sharpton is the champion of the Tawana Brawley hoax, which he maintains to this very day, in spite of a court ruling against him. Sharpton makes his living, like Jesse Jackson, shaking down companies with bogus complaints of racism.

By: faraway

faraway — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:42:53 +0000

Sharpton wants a “Chocolate” President in 08 and Obama, to him, is a little too “Fudge Ripple”.

By: infidel4life

infidel4life — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:56:32 +0000

I liked the not-so-subtle ‘beverage’ dig at Nagin.

By: baldilocks

baldilocks — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:30:34 +0000

African Please!

Mazztek on February 13, 2007 at 1:35 PM

Heh.

By: johnnyU

johnnyU — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:46:38 +0000

…and just what ‘kind’ would that be Mr. Sharpton?
We’re all supposed to be equal are we not? Obama can’t even make other blacks happy, so I don’t give him long in this race. gawd sakes. Then where will those voters flock to? To Hillary? It hasn’t gotten interesting yet folks, just wait till the real players emerge, unless the voters dumpster-dive and take Hillary when the smoke clears….. but that would be a pretty bad day indeed. We need some good candidates, not professional sh*t slingers….

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:36:49 +0000

So…I guess Obama’s not down with the struggle?

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:35:34 +0000

Whatever happened to the King concept of “judging someone on the content of their character“?

(I guess with these characters, the answer is self-explanatory.)

By: JasonG

JasonG — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:26:18 +0000

I thin BacaDog, and others are onto something. If Obama becomes the candidate and their by displays his ability to be successful with out being a “victim” of some race related “crime”, then it puts Sharpton and Jackson closer to out of business doesn’t it…

Of course not. If there is a black man in the White House they’ll be laughed out of the mainstream if they start talking about institutional racism.

By: Farmer_Joe

Farmer_Joe — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:23:49 +0000

I read this as Sharpton signaling to Obama, “There had better be a piece of the action for me.”

By: Lonevoice

Lonevoice — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:19:23 +0000

Well, I always said that even a blind hog finds an acorn every so often.

SNL actually being funny?

QED.

By: thegreatbeast

thegreatbeast — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:06:31 +0000

The Obama phenomenon horrifies me because it has already succeeded on a smaller scale here in Massachusetts. A man-in-the-mirror candidate won the governor’s office last fall. He came out of nowhere, noone knew anything about him but a good majority of the electorate unthinkingly projected their wants and needs onto a cypher, someone who didn’t exist but looked good doing it. Waking up from such somnambulism is going to be frightful as the chimera starts enacting laws & regulations.
Indulging in a little dimestore psychoanalysis, allow me to ascribe most of BO’s articulateness to the fact that he hasn’t been branded by an affilliation with the Johnny Onenotes, Revs. Sharpton & Jackson et al. To do so would marginalize him and drop his poll numbers like a stone. Black Leadership is, of course, sensitive to the rebuff.
Early indications are that BO will use his wife to procure his street cred. Let her give voice to the overwhelming obstacles the black man must overcome to achieve anything in white Amerika.

By: thegreatbeast

thegreatbeast — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:40:46 +0000

I’m scared of the Obama phenomenon because it is all about that man-in-the-mirror thing where people are projecting their wants and needs onto a cypher. It has nothing to do with who Barack Obama is.
Allow me a little psychoanalysis without assigning intent to those who have used the term but BO is articulate precisely because he isn’t the Johnny Onenotes that the Revs. Jackson & Sharpton are. If he were to embrace the agendas of the poverty pimps, what would differentiate him from them? The consequence of hitching his star with that of THE “black leadership” would be to marginalize himself. He’d drop like a stone in the polls.
And from early indications, it looks like he might use his wife to procure his street cred. Let her give voice to the overwhelming obstacles facing the black man in Amerika.

By: brtex

brtex — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:27:36 +0000

Almost did a Danny Thomas spit-take on that one.

benrand on February 13, 2007 at 4:10 PM

Showing your age benrand…;)

By: benrand

benrand — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:10:32 +0000

I saw the Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Esq. on the tube saying that the good Rev. Dr. Rev. Jesse Jackson Esq. was *articulate*. Almost did a Danny Thomas spit-take on that one.

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By: E L Frederick (Sniper One)

E L Frederick (Sniper One) — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:07:48 +0000

He isn’t black, he’s “clean”.

By: Parley

Parley — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:07:00 +0000

fogw said:

Has marblemouth Jesse ever actually had a real job?

Yes, actually Je$$e Jack$on worked at a lunch counter when he was young and admitted to spitting in white folks soup.

By: mikeyboss

mikeyboss — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:59:59 +0000

Misleading headline, AP.

By: faraway

faraway — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:57:01 +0000

You know, I am trying to remember a Republican that had to apologize for slamming the troops. (see Obama’s “3000 lives … wasted”)

Hmmm…

By: faraway

faraway — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:40:14 +0000

Obama/Hilton 08

Were both famous for being famous.