Jackson: Strategy #1 on Black Appointees

Thanks to Ankle Biting Pundits for pointing this one out. In a speech this week that defended Howard Dean's "black hotel staff comments," Jesse Jackson spelled out the real meaning of Dean's comments.

“The point he was trying to make was that the Bush administration is extremely hostile and threatening to the interest of black people,” Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a former Democratic presidential candidate, told BlackAmericaWeb.com Tuesday. “He was saying that although the Republican Party has leading blacks in high positions, they are not black leaders who can deliver voters.”

So that’s the new rationale for appointing black people - they must be done for political reasons rather than simply for being qualified.