Rev. Jackson faults Cavs owner's LeBron comments

[BudBall]

I like Jesse Jackson but he is an idiot on this one.

[Swatguy]

I like Jesse Jackson but he is an idiot on this one.

Idiot is a very strong word. Care to elaborate?

[AHF]

Not true. Blacks had slaves. Indians had slaves. In the United States. World wide and in history every ethno have been enslaved. It appears you are a bit sensitive to slavery as others are. Truth is slavery was around a long long time be for it was so racially fit in america. Again. "slave-mentality" is much bigger than race. Perhaps race baiters would stop making people's issues racial to cover up the issue. The "Slave-mentality" is as much greed and pride as it is Race. But if Jesse says it it must be racial. may want to check your racism.

The racial element here is so obvious that David Stern commented on it without any backlash whatsoever. We are just going to have to agree to disagree on this. The context of the players involved in this situation and Jackson's history makes it a highly ineffective means of communication for Jackson if he was not trying to raise a racial element into the Gilbert/Lebron dynamic.

(On slavery in the US [and I am talking US, not worldwide] the dynamic is white/black. Some Native Americans may have owned slaves and some blacks may have owned slaves but the dynamic is white/black in this country. Historians and students of history learn that there is a broader picture at issue but that doesn't influence the racial dynamic in the country which remains black/white on the issue of slavery. Anyone who pretends otherwise is doing just that - pretending otherwise. Calling a rich white man a slave master of a young black man plays into that dynamic.)

[Swatguy]

The racial element here is so obvious that David Stern commented on it without any backlash whatsoever. We are just going to have to agree to disagree on this. The context of the players involved in this situation and Jackson's history makes it a highly ineffective means of communication for Jackson if he was not trying to raise a racial element into the Gilbert/Lebron dynamic.

(On slavery in the US [and I am talking US, not worldwide] the dynamic is white/black. Some Native Americans may have owned slaves and some blacks may have owned slaves but the dynamic is white/black in this country. Historians and students of history learn that there is a broader picture at issue but that doesn't influence the racial dynamic in the country which remains black/white on the issue of slavery. Anyone who pretends otherwise is doing just that - pretending otherwise. Calling a rich white man a slave master of a young black man plays into that dynamic.)

Fair. I'll still sit on the "However" seat of the benefit of the doubt.

[AHF]

Fair. I'll still sit on the "However" seat of the benefit of the doubt.

Fair enough!