Reverend, practice what you preach!  That’s our advice to the Reverend Jesse Jackson, following the FOX disclosure that during the castration comment Jackson made about Barack Obama he used the “N-word.”  It seems that Jackson, having been removed from the spotlight some years ago, has turned to shock tactics to get his name back in the news, all perhaps subconsciously.  However, Jackson who has held himself out as a representative of black Americans for years has demonstrated that it is his own language and representation of his ethnicity that condemns the people he claims to represent.

According to FOX news, Jackson used the “N-word” during his comments about cutting Barack Obama’s nuts out because he talks down to black people.   Jackson is totally irrelevant in today’s racial conversation.  It is not that we have forgotten the injustices in our American history.  We have not forgotten our mistakes.  There is still much dialogue left on that subject.  But, Jackson is among those who wants to not only keep the debate alive, but wants to keep the divide deep and wide.  It’s too late for that.  Just as with Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jackson is stuck in the 1960’s, unwilling to acknowledge that change has taken place.  The world isn’t perfect.  African Americans are still feeling the discrimination.  We have still have a long road to travel.  But, look around.  We have made some progress.

Times have changed.  No one has forgotten the fight or the discrimination.  But, the dialogue has changed.  It’s a shame that Jesse Jackson is fighting the progress we have made as a nation.  Instead, we find that it is Jackson, not Obama, who talks down about his community.  And, that makes Jackson irrelevant in today’s discussions.