We haven’t heard much from Chicago’s Jesse Jackson, Jr., of late. You may remember that the U.S. representative and progeny of one of history’s greatest race hustlers was embroiled in the Rod Blagojevich corruption scandal, suspected of being the candidate who tried to buy the governor’s appointment to the senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. More recently, he has been dealing with the fallout from his affair with a Peruvian cocktail waitress who worked at a D.C.-area nightclub where the younger Jackson reportedly held fundraisers.
A few days ago, Jackson broke his media silence by doing an interview with the Associated Press, wherein he said, among other things, that, “every one of us has erred in their personal lives.” Earlier in the day and before the interview, he spoke, with his dad, to Cook County Boot Camp detainees, and informed them that, “everybody’s falling short of the glory of God.”
Good to know.
I’m 100 percent fine with the idea that we are all imperfect, to say the least, and that we should be prudent about the manner in which we cite the lapses of others. Goodness knows that over the course of my near-five decades on earth, I have done things of which I am ashamed, and even wish that I could have a couple of do-overs. That said, there is a material difference between humbly citing the reality that we all have the capacity to exhibit imperfect behavior when it comes to matters of morality and ethics, and proclaiming it loudly in a way that suggests the proclaimer is not only bent on relying on poor excuses for what he has done, but seeking to establish a basis on which to be granted a pass for future transgressions, as well. Honestly, it’s a bit difficult to get the sense that Jesse Jackson, Jr. is doing anything but the latter.
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Good article. It's sad that in terms of loose morals, the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
Posted by: SF | December 29, 2010 at 03:35 PM