Jesse Jackson, shut up!

According to the statistics of my esteemed blog with an estimated readership of 2.4 on average (an alltime low I believe), this would be my 200th post since starting it a few years ago. And I'm going to waste this landmark post on the likes of Jesse Jackson.

Of course, Jackson had to chime in on the LeBron James hoopla, because there was James, a black man polarizing all of America in his self-indulgent glory, and Jackson feels entitled to feed off of the carcass of the spotlight as well. And the story goes like this: James does his well-publicized thing... Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert releases a scathing, jilted-lover style letter addressing the "betrayal"... Jackson says that Gilbert is acting like a slave owner upset that the runaway slave (James) got away.

Bull-(insert your own creative noun)!!!!

Only Jesse Jackson could think that he speaks on behalf of an entire race of people. Only Jesse Jackson can turn just about any issue into an issue of race. Only Jesse Jackson can equate LeBron James and his hundreds of millions of dollars with a slave.

This was not about race, and anyone with half a brain watching the proceedings knows it. This is about basketball. This is about business. This is about a richer-than-earth man with a clever agent orchestrating an impressive heist amidst the boundaries of free agency. This is about said richer-than-earth man firmly applying a bounty upon his own head by making a spectacle and mockery of it publicly, shamelessly, and with his tongue sticking out... when no one, it seems, really wronged him.

For Jackson to even speak, let alone interject race into the issue, shows how shallow he is, how drunk he gets on the spotlight, and how hypnotized he is by the issue he platforms upon. He sees a white owner and a black employee (yes, technically LeBron is an employee, albeit a rich one with incredible free market freedom), and all he sees is injustice, with absolutely no regard to circumstance.

I have yet to hear Jesse Jackson offer a critical thought in his lifetime. And simply because I'm criticizing him, he would call me a racist. No, call me an idiot-ist. I fully accept the realities and injustices of race in this country, but not every last issue is about race, not every last comment is fueled by race, and not every last decision is predicated upon race. Jackson, by his own wild urgency to address race relations, actually sets his cause back too far to measure.

I can rant all day about the stupidity here, but I'm done. I have a class to attend, and a life to live, and wasting more time on Jesse Jackson is exactly that: a waste. So Jesse Jackson, shut up!!!!!