Jesse Jackson is now defending the bus driver who told Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person all so he can attack Phil Robertson.
ABC 11 – Jesse Jackson has decided to weigh in on the inflammatory comments that Phil Robertson made to GQ about gays and African Americans.
In an interview with Drew Magary, the “Duck Dynasty” star said the Nazis needed Jesus, that he never saw the mistreatment of African Americans while growing up in Louisiana before the civil rights era and that homosexuality was a sin.
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“These statements uttered by Robertson are more offensive than the bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama, more than 59 years ago,” Jackson said in a statement obtained by ABC News.
“At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law. Robertson’s statements were uttered freely and openly without cover of the law, within a context of what he seemed to believe was ‘white privilege.'”
The release, dated Dec. 23, requests a meeting within 72 hours with A&E and Cracker Barrel execs and urges the network to uphold Robertson’s suspension.
Jackson and GLAAD said they believe it’s not right for a personality with such a large platform to benefit from such comments.
So Jackson doesn’t think Phil Robertson should benefit from such comments, but apparently he thinks he should benefit from them. What a puke. That’s the only reason he’s sticking his nose into it.
Phil Roberson won’t loose a bit of sleep over Jackson’s comments, I can assure you. And I’ll take Phil Robertson as a preacher over Rev. Jesse Jackson any day of the week and twice on Sunday.