Jesse Jackson: You Cant Vote Against Health Care and Call Yourself Black
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night injected race into the national debate on health care, saying any black lawmaker who votes against President Obama's sweeping overhaul isn't really black, the Hill newspaper reported.
"We even have blacks voting against the health care bill," Jackson reportedly said at a Congressional Black Caucus reception Wednesday night honoring the 25th anniversary of the civil rights leader's run for president.
"You can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man," the Hill reported him saying.
The remark was a clear shot at Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., the only member of the CBC to vote against the House version of the health care legislation.
Davis refused to return fire against Jackson.
"One of the reasons that I like and admire Rev. Jesse Jackson is that 21 years ago he inspired the idea that a black politician would not be judged simply as a black leader," Davis said in a written statement to the newspaper. "The best way to honor Rev. Jackson's legacy is to decline to engage in an argument with him that begins and ends with race."
Jackson later reportedly said that he "didn't call anybody by name and I won't."
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Faster, can you please, please, please reset that Obama clock you have in your signature line? Put us on "nation saving" time! I am pretty sure that would require that it be set to "0"
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Jackson is a focking idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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JJ is the biggest racist I've ever seen. What a piece of $h1t.
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Amen ___!_____ wrote:JJ is the biggest racist I've ever seen. What a piece of $h1t.
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I agree. JJ, Sharpton, and "the Dreamer", are as useless as hen chit on a pump handle. All three should dream they had a J-O-B.Nervous Wreck wrote:Amen ___!_____ wrote:JJ is the biggest racist I've ever seen. What a piece of $h1t.
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The problem with this bunch is they realize they are irellavent, I mean I don't like the guy but we have a black man for a president and he came from a single parent home with zero involvement from his father. He has proven that if you get up off your dead a$$ and work hard for something then your dreams can be realized. The Sharpton, Jackson crowd have spent their whole life telling the black community that you are not on a level playing feild with everuone else. So they have to keep this bull$hit story going or the ones that become irellavent are them.