Jackson Doesn't Know About Fox Apology

Well, the reverend had something to say but won't state that Fox should apologize. How predictable was that? If Vinny's statement was not demeaning and racist it's only because the liberals don't want it to be. If that same string of words had come out of the mouth of a white republican conservative the lefties would be tripping over each other to get to a news mike. The reverend should open his Bible once in a while and delve into the meaning of hypocrisy.
I'm still waiting to hear from the NAACP and the Black Caucus. Anyone placing bets?


The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday criticized Mexican President Vicente Fox's comment that Mexican immigrants to the United States take jobs "that not even blacks want to do."

Jackson called the remark "a spurious comparison" with "ominous racial overtones."

The Mexican president's office issued a statement late Saturday disputing the negative interpretation of his comments, saying Fox has "enormous respect to minorities whatever their racial, ethnic, or religious origin may be."

A Mexican official defended Fox later in the day, saying his description was not meant as an insult.

"The president didn't make a declaration in the racist sense; of course there are those who interpret it in that way," Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Derbez told a reporter in the Mexican state of Jalisco.

Jackson said he has worked "for the citizenship rights of immigrants and Mexican Americans" and wants steps taken to avoid making the United States "hostile toward immigration policy."

He said Fox's comment about "blacks" seemed to be about a stereotype. "Most poor Americans are not black, they're white," he added.

But Jackson stopped short of saying Fox should apologize.

"I don't know about that," he said, adding that the comment was "unwitting, unnecessary, and inappropriate."

From CNN.