{"id":198221,"date":"2007-11-30T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/30\/jesse-jackson-says-dem-candidates-ignore-black-issues-except-for-edwards\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T22:41:00","slug":"jesse-jackson-says-dem-candidates-ignore-black-issues-except-for-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/30\/jesse-jackson-says-dem-candidates-ignore-black-issues-except-for-edwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson Says Dem Candidates Ignore Black Issues, Except for Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating.  It&#8217;s clear that he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/jackson\/668053,CST-EDT-JESSE27.article\">criticizing Obama with this statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Yet the Democratic candidates &#8212; with the exception of John Edwards, who opened his campaign in New Orleans&#8217; Ninth Ward and has made addressing poverty central to his campaign &#8212; have virtually ignored the plight of African Americans in this country. The catastrophic crisis that engulfs the African-American community goes without mention. No urban agenda is given priority. When thousands of African Americans marched in protest in Jena, La., not one candidate showed up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truth be told, I agree.<\/p>\n<p>Among the serious candidates<sup>*<\/sup>, only Edwards is talking to issues of inequality and poverty.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Obama&#8217;s basic message, one of &#8220;bipartisan civility&#8221; pretty much excludes any discussion of the divide between the haves or have nots, because such a discussion would inevitably lead to people saying nasty things to each other.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we do not need a conciliator in chief.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Which excludes Kucinich.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating. It&#8217;s clear that he is criticizing Obama with this statement: Yet the Democratic candidates &#8212; with the exception of John Edwards, who opened his campaign in New Orleans&#8217; Ninth Ward and has made addressing poverty central to his campaign &#8212; have virtually ignored the plight of African Americans in this country. The catastrophic crisis &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,1140,977,988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-poverty","category-presidential-campaign","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}