{"id":199012,"date":"2007-09-19T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/jesse-jackson-please-stfu\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T21:32:00","slug":"jesse-jackson-please-stfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/19\/jesse-jackson-please-stfu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson, Please STFU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jena_Six\">Jena Six<\/a> in Louisiana is a racist bigoted miscarriage of justice.  There Jesse Jackson and I agree.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic party should be doing more about this.  There Jesse Jackson and I agree.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential candidates should be doing more about this.  There Jesse Jackson and I agree.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, when Jesse Jackson critics Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/local\/story\/177514.html\"> for \u201cacting like he\u2019s white\u201d <\/a>, he&#8217;s jumped the shark.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not in a position to discuss whether or not Senator Obama has a special obligation to address this issue, but I am saying that ALL the presidential candidates should address this, and come out against the bigoted, vindictive, and (conveniently) Republican political establishment in Jena, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t &#8220;acting white&#8221;.  This is simply being timid, and it can be addressed to all the presidential candidates, and to the Democratic party establishment in Louisiana too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening to the Jena Six in Louisiana is a racist bigoted miscarriage of justice. There Jesse Jackson and I agree. The Democratic party should be doing more about this. There Jesse Jackson and I agree. The presidential candidates should be doing more about this. There Jesse Jackson and I agree. That being said, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199012"}],"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=199012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}