Jesse Jackson plays racism card on Dan Gilbert

[Argath]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=5372266

CHICAGO -- Jesse Jackson criticized Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert on Sunday, saying Gilbert sees LeBron James as a "runaway slave" and that the owner's comments after the free-agent forward decided to join the Miami Heat put the player in danger.


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His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship -- between business partners -- and LeBron honored his contract.

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-- Rev. Jesse Jackson on Cavs owner Dan Gilbert's comments about LeBron James

Shortly after James announced his decision last week, Gilbert fired off an incendiary letter to Cleveland's fans, ripping the 25-year-old and promising to deliver a title before James wins one. He called James' decision "cowardly" and later told The Associated Press he believes James quit during a handful of Cavaliers playoff games.

"He has gotten a free pass," Gilbert told the AP in a phone interview late Thursday night. "People have covered up for [James] for way too long. Tonight we saw who he really is."

Jackson said Gilbert's comments were "mean, arrogant and presumptuous."

"He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers," the reverend said in a release from his Chicago-based civil rights group, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. "His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship -- between business partners -- and LeBron honored his contract."

Messages were left Sunday night seeking comment from Gilbert, the Cavaliers and James.

Jackson also called Gilbert's comments an attack on all NBA players and said the owner should face a "challenge" from the league and the players' association.

NBA spokesman Tim Frank declined comment.

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[Atlas]

ive never understood how jesse jackson can see what other people feel/see... i guess he is a reverend/mindreader/douchebag all wrapped into one... seriously though, fuck him and fuck dan gilbert...

 

[FirstTimer]

In other new: Water is wet.

 

[Rush]

Jesse Jackson makes me want to be racist.

 

[EmpireWF]

Shit, I'd gladly be a runaway slave if I got his kind of money...and let the man who paid me to talk shit about me!

 

[ralaw]

Gilbert's comments were pretty bad and he received his fair share of ridicule for them, (and rightfully so) but with James' departure the only color that Gilbert sees going out the door is green.

 

[Argath]

Were his comments pathetic and immature? Yes



Were they racist? Not in the least bit. Jesse Jackson needs to join Michael and die already

 

[bucky]

Were his comments pathetic and immature? Yes



Were they racist? Not in the least bit. Jesse Jackson needs to join Michael and die already

Micheal Moore? Cause he would be on my plane of death too.

Explanation:
Plane of Death - A paper airplane with names on it. Light the paper airplane on fire and toss said paper airplane. Must be done in safe environment so as not to start an uncontrollable fire. Plane of Death.

 

[killgod]

Micheal Moore? Cause he would be on my plane of death too.

Explanation:
Plane of Death - A paper airplane with names on it. Light the paper airplane on fire and toss said paper airplane. Must be done in safe environment so as not to start an uncontrollable fire. Plane of Death.

That doesn't sound very deathly.

 

[bucky]

That doesn't sound very deathly.

You're right....Obviously just a useless symbolic gesture. Still makes me feel better.

 

[ralaw]

Were his comments pathetic and immature? Yes



Were they racist? Not in the least bit. Jesse Jackson needs to join Michael and die already

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

- Booker T. Washington, 1911

 

[Anthony]

Jesse Jackson is still relevant? Thought he sailed away on his race baiting money, along with Al Sharpton. An assassin's bullet should find the back of both of their skulls.

Slavery in the south was nothing compared to the atrocities of Holocaust. Grant it the slaves had it pretty bad, but their owners weren't cutting their bodies open and binding their veins with another person to try to conjoin them as Nazi doctors did to Jews. The slaves werent' being pushed into boiling water to see how long they'd live before they finally died. Slavery and the Holocaust were both black eyes in the history of humanity but the atrocities carried out by the Nazi's is bar none the most evil, dispicable acts to ever occur in human history.

P.S. Fuck Jesse Jackson.

 

[Anthony]

By the way, shouldn't this piece of human filth be supporting/speaking for Oscar Grant's family? or is there no money to be made in that case?. Faggot fuck.

Come on brothers, drop some of that knowledge on this ignorant fool.

 

[MrBill]

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

- Booker T. Washington, 1911

Booker T. Washington had a better grasp of race relations 100 years ago than Jesse Jackson does today. The only reason that we even know who Jesse is today is because he was on the balcony with Dr. King when he was assassinated.

 

[Fox1994]

Jesse Jackson is still relevant? Thought he sailed away on his race baiting money, along with Al Sharpton. An assassin's bullet should find the back of both of their skulls.

Slavery in the south was nothing compared to the atrocities of Holocaust. Grant it the slaves had it pretty bad, but their owners weren't cutting their bodies open and binding their veins with another person to try to conjoin them as Nazi doctors did to Jews. The slaves werent' being pushed into boiling water to see how long they'd live before they finally died. Slavery and the Holocaust were both black eyes in the history of humanity but the atrocities carried out by the Nazi's is bar none the most evil, dispicable acts to ever occur in human history.

P.S. Fuck Jesse Jackson.

Are you familiar with the middle passage?

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Anyway, Jesse needs to shut his old ass up. He's completely useless. He's an ornery old man who couldn't even be happy for Obama. He's an ignorant, selfish, ancient asshole, and - in fact - I think Al is less corrosive to race relations, and that's fucking saying something.

 

[Senser81]

Are you familiar with the middle passage?

Yes. I heard its nice this time of year.

 

[jeffx]

He is part of the reason racism still exist in our country.

Dude, folks will hate each other until Judgement Day. Making Jesse the scapegoat for our ills is ridiculous.

At one time, Jesse was relevant, but he blew it. He's as jive as the politicians he criticizes.

 

[jeffx]

The slaves werent' being pushed into boiling water to see how long they'd live before they finally died.

No, they were just whipped(sometimes tortured), had their families torn apart, and watched as women and girls were raped.

But comparing atrocities is dumb and pointless.

 

[ralaw]

No, they were just whipped(sometimes tortured), had their families torn apart, and watched as women and girls were raped.

But comparing atrocities is dumb and pointless.

Exactly, comparing them really doesn't benefit either side. I often hear people doing it as a way to belittle the significance of one (usually slavery) which has no merit.

 

[jeffx]

Exactly, comparing them really doesn't benefit either side. I often hear people doing it as a way to belittle the significance of one (usually slavery) which has no merit.

The folks who do that usually have a deeper agenda.