Amazing, Robert --
I was actually *planning* to ask you to post this transcript, after hearing
you on Flashpoints yesterday. As soon as you started I knew it was
gonna be a humdinger -- and was it ever. You said exactly what
needed to be said on the subject -- especially on the sick American
obsession with castration. (The only thing I would add is that there
seems to be a sort of reverse Oedipal thing going on, with Jesse
Jackson feeling intensely envious of Obama's political potency,
which has easily surpassed his own.)
What a sad and sordid episode. Naturally the mainstream media are
eating it up. (shocking, I know.) Man, you wouldn't believe how many times
I heard some talking head quoting Frantz Fanon! (heh heh, just kidding --
that'll be the day...:)
Anyhow, nice job -- I just wish it wasn't necessary...
Craig
Date sent: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:34:42 -0400
From: "Robert Knight" <theknightreport@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Fulcrums of Change" <fulcrumsofchange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Fulcrumsofchange] The Knight Report: A "vas deferens"
between
Jackson and Obama
*From "The Knight Report" with Robert Knight, on the nationally-syndicated
"Flashpoints" radio news program (www.flashpoints.net):*
**
*In a cutting remark, Jesse Jackson claims Barack Obama's nuts, exposing a
"vas deferens" between the two politicians.*
I'm Robert Knight in New York.
Yeah, he said it. Jesse Jackson wants to castrate Barack Obama.
The "Rainbow Reverend" was wired up, and couldn't take no more of what he
claimed was condescension when Obama urged paternal responsibility in a Bill
Cosby moment during his Father's Day sermon at a black church. Jackson's
Milton Coleman moment and castration call was captured in-studio by the Fox
News-like Channel, which released this excerpt overnight:
CUT: *"See, Barack been, uh... talking down to black people in this faith
base... I wanna cut his nuts out. Barack's talking down to black people. "*
The accompanying video shows Jackson delivering a vicious hand-chop as he
expressed his desire to conduct his orchiectomy on Obama. Also revealed in
the tape -- but neglected in mainstream media analysis -- is the oddly
encouraging reaction of Jackson's interlocutor, Reed Tuckson of the United
Health Care conglomerate. A careful audition of the exchange reveals Tuckson
murmuring "Mm-hm, mm-hm," in apparent assent to the "Jackson procedure."
CUT: *"I wanna cut his nuts out. Mm-hm. Mm-hm."*
According to federal records, Tuckson played both sides in the democratic
primaries, donating the $2,300 dollar maximum to both Hillary Clinton's and
Barack Obama's campaigns. But Tuckson has yet to apologize or explain his
"mm-hm" comments.
Jackson launched an apology blitz, prompting his own son to declare that "I
thoroughly reject and repudiate his ugly rhetoric. He should keep hope alive
and any personal attacks and insults to himself."
Meanwhile, a campaign spokesman said that Obama was not sore, and "of course
accepts Jackson's apology."
This is not the first time Jackson has accused Obama of "talking white." Nor
is Jackson the only one to confuse eloquence with white supremacy.
Third party presidential candidate Ralph Nader also raised the same
subliminally racist issues just two weeks ago when he took a page from Bill
Clinton's book and said, "There's only one thing different about Barack
Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He's half
African-American."
In point of fact, Obama is, by birth, half African and all American. Nader
also inaccurately claimed Obama had not addressed economic exploitation of
blacks, adding the racist coda: "Is it because he wants to talk white? He
doesn't want to appear like Jesse Jackson?"
But it is Jackson's lapse into the terrorist rhetoric of America's wretched
history of lynchings and castrations of thousands of African-American men in
the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries that is the deepest cut for blacks in
America, and all people of good will.
Jackson did not call for the removal of Obama's tongue that "so offendeth
him," nor did he urge testosterone therapy to reverse Obama's recent vote in
which he capitulated to the Bush administration's program for domestic
espionage.
Instead, Jackson's call for Obama's emasculation verbally revived the
spectre of violence that is America's unique shame -- from slavery to this
month's Louisiana legislation providing for mandatory castrations for those
convicted of sexual offenses.
And in the wide angle view of America's racial history, it is Jesse Jackson
who manifested the disease described by Frantz Fanon in "Wretched of the
Earth" and "Black Skin, White Masks" -- in which blacks psychologically
accomodate the attitudes of their white oppressors.
In other words -- it was not Barack Obama, but Jesse Jackson who was *really
* "talking white."
>From exile in New York, I'm Robert Knight.
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