Jesse Jackson: wtf?  

He made the comments because he thinks Obama to be an elitist snob who is condescending to African Americans. He believes Obama's policies will not improve the status of blacks in America, but will more likely hinder their progress. Granted, it was a bad way to communicate his feelings and his message was lost in the rudeness of his comments.

Although, I agree with you. I am really not shocked that Jesse Jackson made those remarks about Obama. I lost respect for Jesse when he had an affair with another woman. I thought that went against everything he was suppose to stand for. How is he going to "uplift the race" when he doesn't seem to know right from wrong himself?As far as his remarks about Obama, I can help thinking about the "crabs in a bushel" saying. Obama got further with his race for candidacy. Obama has more supporters of different races than Jesse could ever hope to have. Jesse is just hatin' on Obama.

Well Obama is the antithesis of everything Jesse Jackson has been promoting. His "Yes We Can" motto is counterproductive to Jesse Jackson's claims that Black Americans need affirmative action, welfare, quotas, and all manner of handouts to be equal citizens in this country. Obama is proving Jesse Jackson wrong in so many ways it's not even funny. I think the one that hit closest to home was what Obama said about how black fathers need to step up and be parents to their children. That probably pushed him over the edge due to his well known indiscretions.

I think it's always been Jackson's mission to keep black Americans dependent on a broken system because that's what gives him something to preach about. It's much harder to be the angry preacher if people aren't depending on the system you complain about. I'm not voting for Obama, but he's a much better man for black Americans to look up to than Jesse Jackson.

Yes, I heard about this. I completely agree with you. Jesse Jackson has proved his ignorance time and time again, and this is like the icing on the cake. I think it's worse than Obama's preacher making his so-called anti-American remarks (which I didn't find to be all that anti-American); plus, I think it may have been an attention-getting ploy on his part (maybe even both of their parts), but that's just my opinion. I try not to let the media affect my viewpoints on anything, though. Obama 08!

Well this is not the first time Jesse Jackson has been under fire for saying stupid things. Sometimes he just does not think before he says something. Even if the cameras were not rolling he should not have made such a rude remark. I think that Jesse Jackson is jealous of Senator Obama. He has always wanted to be president himself and it probably just irks him that another african american may actually become president. Instead of being proud of Senator Obama he instead makes a disparaging remark. Shame on him. For someone like him to be a public figure for so many years acting in this matter is just childish and unnecessary.

I hope you won't be insulted, but I have thought for years that one of the biggest obstacles for success that the black community has in the US are the (male) black leaders.

Of course there will always be people - of all races - who choose to see only the color of someone's skin and not what's inside or one's abilities. But I truly believe that we have made strides that are not being acknowledged. Rather than being happy about that and rather than encouraging the youth of today to find their niche, to discover their passions, it surely seems that the black kids are being told, "the white man is keeping you down" and "you have no chance to succeed" and "you'll be lucky to make it to age 20." If life is, indeed, a self-fulfilling prophecy, telling kids that they don't have a chance will probably make it so.

On the other hand, if each one was encouraged to be the best that he/she could be, they might be able to rise up and do something bigger and better than the generation before.

Jessee Jackson is one of those persons, I think, keeping the youth back. So is Rev. Wright.

Having Obama come as far as he has - and with the big chance that he could actually be the next President - has, obviously, gone against what these men (and others like them) have been telling people in the black community.

If a black man can make it to President, then their predictions that the white rich man will hold the black community back forever are not true. And they've lost face, as some would say.

I'm not at all surprised at Jesse Jackson's comments. I'm glad he messed up and they were made public. It shows what he's truly like.

I would love for MLK's dream to come to pass one day. But I don't think Rev. Jesse Jackson wants that.

Jesse sends AA's back every time he talks. He doesn't want equality, he'd be out of a job, and he is jealous of Obama because his own cadidacy was not acknowleged as well by the press. He is a joke.

Good day... I think people specially in the media should be responsible for what they are speaking of. If it's a disparaging comment whether made on purpose or not but aired that person should apologize to the person involved publicly.