Jesse Jackson apologizes for insulting Obama

While the Rev. Jesse Jackson issued an apology to Barack Obama today for remarks made while he didn't know he was being recorded.

Jackson claims only a portion of his comments were quoted and taken out of context.

"This is a sound bite in a broader conversation about urban policy and racial disparities. I feel very distressed because I'm supportive of this campaign and with the senator, what he has done and is doing," he said. "I said he comes down as speaking down to black people. The moral message must be a much broader message. What we need really is racial justice and urban policy and jobs and health care. That's a range of issues on the menu.

"Then I said something I regret was crude. It was very private. And very much a sound bite," he also said. -arrording to CNN

The debate can be seen on the streets of LA, stop at your local corner van selling Obama T-Shirts, the debate is just begining.


For some the question is by telling African Americans men to stand up is Obama attacking them?

"They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys
instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because
of it," Obama said in a Chicago speech on Father's Day that criticized some men for failing in their duties as parents.

"You and I know how true this is in the African-American community.
We know that more than half of all black children live in single-parent
households, a number that has doubled — doubled — since we were
children. We know the statistics: that children who grow up without a
father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime,
nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more
likely to end up in prison," he also said.

This has been a hot button issue since Bill Cosby spoke up on it and it will no doubt come back again before the end of this race.