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Originally posted by Iconoclastic
If some white man had said, Jesse would be asking for his head on a platter. If it was a Black person of no known notoriety, or a well known person disparaged by the Black community, he would have asked the to be crucified. Sucker!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't care if their frat or not, right is right and wrong is wrong. They call him Racist! Racist! he just a sellout! using his people for riches!
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I definitely agree w/Iconoclastic. If these remarks were made by Condoleeza Rice or Colin Powell our community would have been in an uproar. Both would've been labeled sell outs. I was at Constitution Hall in DC when he made the remarks and honestly a lot of us were stunned. I think it's very easy to make a speech criticizing poor Blacks to an audience of middle and upper class blacks. The problem that I have w/some of his comments is that they target poor blacks. The issues within our educational system that he referred to exists in our poor communities as well as our affluent communities. I live in DC and the schools in Prince Georges County (home to many wealthy blacks) are just as bad as those in DC. I wish he would have commented on that. The bottom line is in our communities, both poor and affluent, we are failing our kids. We need to stop pointing a finger and acting like wealthy black folks are doing such a great job at educating their kids and poor black folks are not. That's just not the case.