(ThyBlackMan.com) Bubba doesn’t care about Reverend Jackson’s “keep hope alive” mantra. He wants the custom of keeping a bar of soap alive in the prison’s community showers. Bubba can’t wait for Jesse Jackson, Jr. to lather up, drop a bar of generic soap and bend over to pick it up in hopes of continuing his shower.
Sorry, Jesse Jackson, Jr., but if you weren’t an advocate for gay rights when you were in Congress, after fellow inmate Bubba rams, like a speed of a 750 miles per hour tractor trailer, into your gluteus maximus, you may be converted to do more for the gay cause when you get out of jail in two and a half years. Don’t sob over this like you did in D. C. federal court Wednesday, August 14, 2013. 500 pounder Pookey is ready to beat you up and take the “gourmet” dinner state officials prepared for you so he can keep his 300,000 daily, caloric diet going.
Jesse Jackson, Jr., the former congressman from Chicago and son of the famed civil rights preacher, goes to prison for 2 ½ years for campaign fund fraud. Federal prosecutors wanted four years or more, but the judge in this case opted to be lenient. Who knows why? Rod Blagojevich got a ridiculous 14-year sentence for his alleged crimes as governor of Illinois and he didn’t steal anything. Jesse Jr. played the bipolar disorder sympathy card in hopes of generating public and judicial compassion.
Let me open up by stating that I have never liked politics. Neither party and other independent groups just do not measure up to the moral commandments that go along with the responsibility of the positions that they are elected to. A person can go into the fray without a dime and come out richer than an ordinary person can only dream of. The benefits package alone is to die for as it comes in a form of a lifetime achievement award. Jesse Jr. did something that the majority of people in the political arena have done, but he just got caught. The comment of 90% of the CBC is cool, but it does not stop there as the problem is not limited just to the CBC. No one knows the exact amounts the officials leave office with, especially when they decide to just quit or not run for re-election. What happens to the monies raised for the purpose of running? America has made strides in the past 50 years, and minorities can be proud of some of the progress made. But one thing will always remain true, that when and if any minority rises to the point of where you actually think that he/she has made it, the fact of the matter will be a quick dose of a reality check. You will be reminded of your PLACE and when a punishment phase is put in, you can bet your bottom dollar that you will be put on the Soul Train of receiving the most severe sentencing that is allowed. Jesse Jr had to have realized that he had more spotlight situations placed on him and that he had to live up to unrealistic expectations due in part to his family and also his ethnicity. Oprah just had a taste of this while in Switerland, where she was told that she could not afford a $38,000 purse and was refused service to even handle the bag. Then she had to offer up an apology for putting the country on spot in response to her treatment. I would have told the clerk where to stick not only that purse, but also her narrow minded assessment of a customer based on color and dress. If people truly want to do what is right they only have to remember that a true confession is good for the soul. However, I doubt that anyone would come forward with the right stuff only until the spotlight shines on them for either the right or wrong reason. We have made the mistake of expecting people who have been given much to be superhuman and live above any reasonable expectations. I will be the first to tell you that I am not perfect and without God I can not even try to be. It is just the nature of being human and falling for the corruption opportunities that this world offers. Money, women, drink, and power can be obtained at any given time, but what counts the most is what did those who MADE it did with it. We have no choice but to wake up and deal with reality as I can not honesty say what I would have done if I were in the position of those that have fallen from grace. All I know is that I am not going to throw stones when I know that in the end except for the grace of God, it could have been me. Peace out, Papacool.
It is evidently what he did was learned growing up at the dinner table, MLK made it clear in his sermon “THE DRUM MAJOR INSTINCT”
ITS time for we black AMERICANS to reexamine our relationship with the so-called black political establishment;their corruption is too obvious to ignore.
I would be willing to bet that 90% of the CBC could be indicted and imprisoned at anytime they are that compromised and our condition as a people reflect this. NO PEOPLE CAN PROGRESS WITH CORRUPT LEADERSHIP.
IT also time to end this sick relationship we are having with the DEMOCRATIC party they are the one who corrupted our leaders;we should be mature enough and politically sophisticated enough by now to form our own national black party we have no more excuses.