You know, I don’t know much about Jesse Jackson – I’m new to the USA – but I did see him speaking out on issues a lot since I have been here and I did look into the history of the man, because I was curious and wondered why he often seemed to be speaking in an anti-white way.

What Jesse Jackson used to say – a few years ago – mattered. He really spoke out on issues that needed to be voiced and needed to be heard. These days? He just seems like a racist man out to serve his own personal agenda, jumping onto issues that can in any way be linked to race (even if that connection to race is purely circumstantial).

According to a South Carolina newspaper, Jackson recently attacked Barack Obama for “acting white” and failing to act on convictions of black kids by an all-white jury. First, obviously, his comments appear racist and prejudice towards the intelligence of white people. He is suggesting that white people are unable to make a decision on the guilt or innocence of a black person without prejudice. That’s racism, isn’t it?

Also, Jackson quite clearly recognises skin colour, something that a non-racist wouldn’t tend to. He obviously recognises that Obama is black (or half-black, actually) and seems to ‘expect’ him to act a certain way because of it, he also obviously sees white people as different, even less capable than himself.

I do understand that there is a possibility of a link to racism for this case (or at least at the school involved), but these days what Jesse Jackson says does not matter. He brings negativity and he consistently reinforces stereotypes. He constantly makes it obvious that the white man is a white man and the black man is a black man – they aren’t just ‘people’ in his eyes.

Jesse Jackson keeps racism alive.