Jesse Jackson Makes Health Care Bill A Litmus Test for Being Black

November 20th, 2009

According to The Hill, on Wednesday night at a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation reception, Jackson said:

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

Jesse Jackson

Jesse Jackson, who’s been an opportunistic leech on the soul of Black folks; pimping out our struggle for personal financial gain for the last 30 years, has really got some nerve. But then again we are talking about the struggle pimping leech that is Jesse Jackson. So par for the course of his “rhetorically dramatic, intellectually devoid, black mail/knife in the back” style of politics. Yet another example of how the health care debate is poisoned.

His attack was specifically aimed at Rep. Author Davis of Alabama, the only Congressional Black Caucus member to vote against the recent bill. Though Jackson notes that he “didn’t call anybody by name and I won’t”, as if that’s honorable. It’s in fact the exact opposite; it’s cowardly and dishonorable. If you’re going to say something that can only apply to one person, then have the testicular fortitude to go ahead and say their name.

Jackson’s premise is egregiously faulty based on him using the rhetorical pit hole of the camp that argues the health care issue in this way; in which not being for their particular health care bill, or not being for the particular type of health care reform that they favor equals being against health care.


So by Jackson’s illogic, democrats who voted or argued against Bush’s Medicare Plan D (which is healthcare) are against health care and hate seniors. This would include the likes of Mr. all-or-nothing on a public option, Howard Dean and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. Most Black caucus members also voted against this health care, including then Congressmen Jesse Jackson Jr. Not only that, Jesse Jackson Jr voted against health care bills a number of times. Other examples:

-On H.R. 3010 he voted “NO” to $6.45 billion for health resources and services and NO” to $5.95 billion for CDC
-He vote “NO” to establishing tax exempt Medical Savings Accounts in 1999

So if voting against a health care bill dissipates your blackness, Jesse Jackson’s got a problem with his own first born. He should worry about the blackness in his own house, before going out to pronounce the right of heritage of other Black folks.

There is no stagnate, specific health care bill that he’s even referring to. His form of nonsense ridiculously requires one to blindly before whatever is put forth, no matter shape, form, cost, benefits, or repercussions.

Though it’s not even what his position is, his position is simply to say that he is the decider and arbitrator of what’s a proper health care bill, and of what constitutes being black, and if you don’t agree with him he’ll use a slash and burn technique to caustically assail your character.

Thanks Jesse, good to see your personal growth.



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