Jesse Jackson Says Gilbert sees Lebron as "Runaway slave from Gilbert's Plantation"

• IggyPride00

  

  Jesse Jackson has come to the defense of LeBron James -- even though no one asked him to -- and compared Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert to a "slave master."
  
  In a harshly-worded statement, Jackson took Gilbert to task for his open letter to Cavaliers fans which slammed LeBron's decision to sign with the Miami Heat. Jackson says, "He speaks as an owner of LeBron and not the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers. His feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave."
  
  He goes on, "LeBron is not a child, nor is he bound to play on Gilbert’s plantation and be demeaned. He has been a model citizen and has inspired the children of Akron, Cleveland, the State of Ohio and the United States."
  
  Not sure if Cleveland fans would rush to LeBron's defense right now.

  http://www.tmz.com/2010/07/11/jesse-jackson-lebron-james-dan-gilbert-cleveland-cavaliers/
• derek bomar

  

  let me be the first to say "get the fuck out of here Jesse"
• IggyPride00

  

  I read the headline and I am laughing right now about just how absurd it truly is.
  
  Jesse Jackson may have officially jumped the shark with this one.
• Al Bundy

  Slavery was a terrible thing in our country's history. How can he possibly compare someone who is making tens of millions of dollars to someone who went through that awful institution?
• KR1245

  

  This guy needs to die. I'm and tired of im throwing out the race card. Get the fuck out you piece of shit
• Tigerfan00

  

  Get a job, Jesse
• Trueblue23

  

  Jesse Jackson is a piece of dog shit.
• wes_mantooth

  

  I just posted over on RCF about this. Guys like jackson and sharpton do nothing but damage when they get involved...they are laughing stocks and complete jokes.
• ts1227

  

  He's grasping at straws on this one, to say the least
• sjmvsfscs08

  He needs to die already. What a piece of shit. If MLK were around today he'd be disgusted.
• IggyPride00

  

  If offering a guy a 6 year deal worth $120+ million to stay is the going rate for slave labor today where can I get an application.
  
  He has gone to some ludicrous links to draw race into a conversation in the past, but this one really takes the cake.
  
  It is an insult to those whose ancestors were real slaves and truly suffered to compare the owner of a basketball team paying every minority on the team at least $1 million a year to a slavemaster. Not to mention comparing Lebron James to a slave, when he makes $40+ million a year for his services.
  
  The reverend is just doing what he does, but it is particularly heinous given the circumstances and the images he is trying to invoke.
• hoops23

  

  My best friend just said "We don't even like Jesse Jackson"...
• Footwedge

  Jesse is a racist...and a really bad one at that. This type of crap is why Triv and Rushbo race bait the way they do. Yeah, Gilbert is pissed because a black guy jumped ship. Yeah that's it.
• newarkcatholicfan

  

  Jesse Jackson is nothing but a racist who gets only one kind of human being to follow him and that is the weak who can not think on their on.
• just_a_swimmer

  

  I just want to tell him to shut up. He is so far off base.
• mallymal614

  
• BCBulldog

  

  Keep talking Jackson, you just make Dan Gilbert look even more credible.
• krazie45

  

  Yea Jackson is only helping Gilbert on this one....what an idiot
• killer_ewok

  

  
• DeyDurkie5

  

  black people are the worst sometimes
• sjmvsfscs08

  easyyy killer..
• Writerbuckeye

  

  Tigerfan00;420718 wrote:Get a job, Jesse

  
  He has one. He's America's biggest race baiter and one of its best shakedown artists. Where do you think the money comes from?
• Fidmeister

  We should have seen this coming.
  
  After all, when's the last time Jesse was in the news?
  
  What a chode.
• sportchampps

  Shut the Fuck up Jesse. Jesse may have picked the wrong person to try and call out in Dan Gilbert. From what I have read about Dan he is someone who might react to this.
• Fidmeister

  KR1245;420716 wrote:This guy needs to die. I'm and tired of im throwing out the race card. Get the fuck out you piece of shit

  
  No one needs to die just because they happen to do things that seem irrational. Slow down with the hate.
  
  Jesse tosses a race card in when there typically aren't any needed. Think back to Ray Rhodes getting fired after a season in Green Bay. Don't see Jesse coming to defend all the white coaches getting canned after one season.