President Obama's Eulogy Of Rev. Jesse Jackson

[Pioneer1]

 

[ProfD]

Former POTUS Barack Obama still has the gift of oratory. He gave an excellent eulogy for Rev. Jesse Jackson.

 

Glad Rev. Jackson's celebration of life was well done. Despite the fact that the white supremacists did not allow him to lie in state at the US Capitol.

 

Another example that Black folks don't have to wait on white folks for validation &/or acknowledgement.

 

In the words of the late, great James Brown, "I don't want nobody to give me nothin', just open up the door & I'll get it myself."

 

Thanks to everyone who made Rev. Jesse Jackson homegoing a stately affair.

 

Job well done. RIP Rev. Jesse Jackson.

[Pioneer1]

ProfD

This also shows me....as most of his speeches....that Obama knows how to influence and motivate people when he WANTS to.
So all this crap about he couldn't get "this" done or "that" done is just that.....crap.
He got done what he was put in office to do.

I was initially interested in this video because because of a bit of deception that was going on around the internet (George W. Bush said "internets"....lol) that Obama was dragging Trump in the eulogy and really letting loose on him.
Man, I watched that speech from start to finish and he didn't even mention Trump's name...or the Presidency.

He did indirectly touch on him for a moment or two with the "every morning you wake up" remarks, but that's about as far as it went.

My question is, where was Michelle?

[ProfD]

38 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

This also shows me....as most of his speeches....that Obama knows how to influence and motivate people when he WANTS to.

What did his eulogy influence or motivate people to do?

 

38 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

So all this crap about he couldn't get "this" done or "that" done is just that.....crap.
He got done what he was put in office to do.

Every POTUS has a mandate to fulfill upon taking the job. It comes from the most powerful groups of people. 

 

38 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

My question is, where was Michelle?

The whereabouts of his wife always seems to be the question whenever POTUS Obama makes an appearance without her.

 

Former FLOTUS Obama is making her own moves out in these streets. Clearly, she's not tethered to her husband.

 

It's funny that nobody asks why POTUS OJ doesn't wear a wedding ring & FLOTUS always looks like she's being forced to make appearances with him whenever she does show up.

 

The Clintons look more like business partners than a happily married couple. That's mainly because their marriage is an arrangement. 

 

Expectations are very different when it comes to white men & their wives.

[Pioneer1]

ProfD

 

 

What did his eulogy influence or motivate people to do?

 

Exactly what they did
Play the little entertaining game of "call and respond", that he usually does when speaking to a Black audience.

 

 That's right!
 Go 'head baby!
 say it honey say it!

 

He doesn't demand much from them except cheerleading and moral encouragement.

 

 

 

 

Every POTUS has a mandate to fulfill upon taking the job. It comes from the most powerful groups of people. 

 

While this is true, I often look to Franklin D. Roosevelt as an example of one who may have bucked the system a little bit and gave the people what they actually NEEDED.

 

 

 

 

 

The whereabouts of his wife always seems to be the question whenever POTUS Obama makes an appearance without her.

 

Lol....for a good reason.

Probably for the same reason she's constantly getting make-overs that make her look 20 years younger and keeping them long brown legs nice and shiny....lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former FLOTUS Obama is making her own moves out in these streets. 

 

Which should be an embarrassment to him.

 

 

 

 

The Clintons look more like business partners than a happily married couple. That's mainly because their marriage is an arrangement. 

 

It's like that with MOST wealthy and powerful couples.

Wealthy and powerful people know that marriage is just a business and social arrangement designed to boost the status and wealth of both parties as well as often times their two families.
 

It's usually the poor and uneducated men who are silly enough to actually believe that marriages in Western society are "divinely ordained" or holy.
Only to get angry and go on killing sprees when their wives show them....one way or another....that they're actually not.

 

 

 

 

"How could she do this to me?
....with my own brother?
.....and his friend?
....in the bed I built with my own two hands?
....on the brand new mattress I just bought 2 weeks ago?
....with our children in the next room?
.....with my dog in the same room watching them?
....and put it all on video?
Fuck it!  They all gotta go!"


You never hear about rich men committing murder suicide because they caught their wives cheating.
They EXPECT for them to cheat....because THEY'RE cheating too.
Just don't bring home a disease or unwanted pregnancy that ruins his image.

Some rich men PICK the man he let's his wife have sex with....lol.


 

 

Expectations are very different when it comes to white men & their wives.
 

The expectations are different because the patterns of behavior are different.

White women have a pattern of standing by their White men in power, both physically and otherwise.
Do Black women have a pattern of standing by Black men, even if he's wealthy and in power?
 

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

Exactly what they did

Play the little entertaining game of "call and respond", that he usually does when speaking to a Black audience.

 

 That's right!
 Go 'head baby!
 say it honey say it!

 

He doesn't demand much from them except cheerleading and moral encouragement.

Every pork chop preacher gets the same response on Sundays & during other speaking engagements.

 

 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

While this is true, I often look to Franklin D. Roosevelt as an example of one who may have bucked the system a little bit and gave the people what they actually NEEDED.

POTUS FDR's His mandate was to pull white folks out of the Great Depression.

 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

Lol....for a good reason.

Probably for the same reason she's constantly getting make-overs that make her look 20 years younger and keeping them long brown legs nice and shiny....lol.

That's no reason to gatekeep a wife.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

Former FLOTUS Obama is making her own moves out in these streets. 

 

 

Which should be an embarrassment to him.

She's generating more wealth for them. That's not embarrassment. 

 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

It's like that with MOST wealthy and powerful couples.

Wealthy and powerful people know that marriage is just a business and social arrangement designed to boost the status and wealth of both parties as well as often times their two families.

The Obamas are running the same playbook.

 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

You never hear about rich men committing murder suicide because they caught their wives cheating.
They EXPECT for them to cheat....because THEY'RE cheating too.

As I mentioned in previous threads, rich & powerful men think differently when it comes to women.

 

It's hard to become wealthy & keep it. Women come a dime a dozen especially to rich & powerful men. 

 

 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

The expectations are different because the patterns of behavior are different.

White women have a pattern of standing by their White men in power, both physically and otherwise.
Do Black women have a pattern of standing by Black men, even if he's wealthy and in power?

Most Black women stand by their men regardless of whether he's rich & powerful or more broke than a bag of glass.

[richardmurray]

Great reply

 

[aka Contrarian]

Jesse Jr, has his bi-polar panties in a bunch because the 3 US Presidents invited to the funeral of his father (a political figure in his own right who never missed a chance to speak about political issues) injected politics into their tributes to Jesse,Sr. at his funeral.

Jesse, Jr.'s complaints have garnered very little support, with most people cynically speculating that he's probably trying to get on the good side of Trump in hopes of Trump pardoning him for his crime of misusing his campaign funds to finance a luxurious lifestyle and served time in jail for doing this. tsk-tsk. 

Also rumors floating around about Jesse having conned Trump into contributing to his presidential campaigns back when he ran for president twice.  

Whatever. As has previously been established, nobody's perfect.

[richardmurray]

@aka Contrarian well,I think what jesse jackson jr said was truth, clinton/obama/biden were each considered good guys, the southern white sax player, the mulatto with a black wife, the kindly old white guy, but each weren't the kind of elected advocate that Jesse Jackson  senior hoped to brew as a common occurrence in the usa. I still feel ,with no proof, that what Jesse Jackson wanted, his purpose, was to get people with the quality of leadership of advocates, unpaid or unelected while totally committed, like fannie lou hamer or malcolm x to be elected officials, to improve the quality of elected officials, in the usa. Instead, the overall industry of government led to a bunch of pantomime black or non black elected officials who are all salespeople, who do nothing for blacks or non blacks while claiming their are acting in all humanities betterment.  This is why Shirley Chisholm left government. She was an advocate who became an elected official, but she was surrounded by black plus non black salespeople. And three of said salespeople spoke during jesse jackson's funeral with the same quality inherent in insult that brooke shileds plus magic johnson spoke at michael jackson's funeral.  

[aka Contrarian]

Well, if you dont want the 3 Presidents to talk politics at the funeral of a political figure, then don't invite them, just to show how important the deceased was. And Al Sharpton certainly didn't mince any words about what's happening in the country in his remarks. 

If you want a dignified funeral, don't invite a bunch of dignitaries to speak, and hold the services at a huge hall to accommodate  all the public mourners you opened the doors to.

You're just asking for confusion and resentment and that's what the Jackson family got.

You can't have it both ways.

[ProfD]

22 minutes ago, aka Contrarian said:

And Al Sharpton certainly didn't mince any terms about what's happening in the country in his remarks. 

i know this thread is about the late Rev. Jesse Jackson. 

 

I think we can take a moment to acknowledge that Rev. Al Sharpton looks like a Pez dispenser.

 

22 minutes ago, aka Contrarian said:

If you want a dignified funeral, don't invite a bunch of dignitaries to speak, and hold the services at a huge hall to accommodate  all the public mourners you opened the doors to.

You're just asking for confusion and resentment and that's what the Jackson family got.

You can't have it both ways.

Facts.  The Jackson family should have laid out ground rules &/or talking points if they didn't want folks to speak politics.

[Pioneer1]

On 3/9/2026 at 1:10 AM, richardmurray said:

 

Maaaaan, these sistaz and this blonde hair business.

This shit has got to stop.

Perhaps there should be a Black Law: If you're already light skinned, you shouldn't be allowed to dye your hair blonde.

Maybe we should have a limit to how many "white" features a Black person is allowed to have before they are no longer considered Black....lol.
 

[richardmurray]

@aka Contrarian 

On 3/11/2026 at 6:04 PM, aka Contrarian said:

Well, if you dont want the 3 Presidents to talk politics at the funeral of a political figure, then don't invite them, just to show how important the deceased was. And Al Sharpton certainly didn't mince any words about what's happening in the country in his remarks. 

If you want a dignified funeral, don't invite a bunch of dignitaries to speak, and hold the services at a huge hall to accommodate  all the public mourners you opened the doors to.

You're just asking for confusion and resentment and that's what the Jackson family got.

You can't have it both ways.

I am with you 100% Do I think jesse jackson spoke false ? no BUT I concur to your point that if you want no commercialization then make the funeral private and if you want a more public aspect, for jesse jackson was famous, known, then you need to have greater control over what happens plus over how what happens in the schedule. I concur to you. If you open the possibility for behavior you don't want at an event you control, then when the behavior you don't want happens you are partially and arguably mostly to blame. If Jesse jackson junior would had began mentioning where the jackson clan, or whomever was in control went wrong, that would had made his speech not only truthful but even.

 

@Pioneer1 

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

This shit has got to stop.

Perhaps there should be a Black Law: If you're already light skinned, you shouldn't be allowed to dye your hair blonde.

Maybe we should have a limit to how many "white" features a Black person is allowed to have before they are no longer considered Black....lol.

i have to ask a simple question. who will enforce the black laws? you?:) you talk of law enforcement with white laws so i assume someone will enforce the black laws:)

[Pioneer1]

40 minutes ago, richardmurray said:

 

 

@Pioneer1 

i have to ask a simple question. who will enforce the black laws? you?:) you talk of law enforcement with white laws so i assume someone will enforce the black laws:)

I guess if we could figure out who or what is influencing so many Black women to dye their hair blonde, we can figure out who or what can get them to stop.
 

[richardmurray]

@Pioneer1

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

I guess if we could figure out who or what is influencing so many Black women to dye their hair blonde, we can figure out who or what can get them to stop.

what if the influencer is the freedom of a woman to do whatever she wants with out having to worry about any penalty ? who is going to deny them their freedom to do what they want? what can deny them the freedom to do what they want?

[Pioneer1]

14 hours ago, richardmurray said:

@Pioneer1

what if the influencer is the freedom of a woman to do whatever she wants with out having to worry about any penalty ? who is going to deny them their freedom to do what they want? what can deny them the freedom to do what they want?

If the "freedom of a woman to do whatever she wants" was the influencer....where are the AfroAmerican women with naturally light hair dying it black or dark brown?

When was the last time you saw a Black entertainer with naturally lighter hair dying it black?

It's not about freedom, it's about them being conditioned to believe that blonde hair, light skin, and light eyes somehow makes them look better.

I don't think they should be physically or even legally prevented from doing so, but I do think that we as AfroAmericans who ARE proud to be Black...should have a consistent campaign of self-love and promotion of African features like dark skin and dark hair and promote this especially to our children to COUNTER the effects from centuries of racist anti-Black brainwashing that our community has endured.

Use the movies, television shows, and advertisements to promote dark skin and dark hair....especially to our children.
Make them desire THOSE features, instead of the opposite.

[richardmurray]

@Pioneer1 

6 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

If the "freedom of a woman to do whatever she wants" was the influencer....where are the AfroAmerican women with naturally light hair dying it black or dark brown?

When was the last time you saw a Black entertainer with naturally lighter hair dying it black?

It's not about freedom, it's about them being conditioned to believe that blonde hair, light skin, and light eyes somehow makes them look better.

I don't think they should be physically or even legally prevented from doing so, but I do think that we as AfroAmericans who ARE proud to be Black...should have a consistent campaign of self-love and promotion of African features like dark skin and dark hair and promote this especially to our children to COUNTER the effects from centuries of racist anti-Black brainwashing that our community has endured.

Use the movies, television shows, and advertisements to promote dark skin and dark hair....especially to our children.
Make them desire THOSE features, instead of the opposite.

 

In my experience most Black women don't have naturally light hair. so they would never need to dye it a dark color. In contrast i find many white women tend to have natural light hair and they dye it dark colors. 

 

I can't recall a Black Entertainer with naturally lighter hair. Black to dark Brown is the usual colors for Black entertainers. 

 

You are not wrong that conditioning exist, this is undeniably true.

 

BUT, you hint at a greater challenge. I live in NYC , has more black women than any other city in the united states of america. If someone asks me what hairstyle do most black women have. I argue, a majority of black women in NYC today of younger generations have natural styles. And black women in nYC of older generations have a fifty /fifty natural to unnatural. Now, You mention a consistent campaign but when does this end? are you speaking of an eternal campaign? why do I ask? don't forget you live in the usa. There isn't a populace/peoples/group in the usa today that doesn't have many individuals in it who don't adhere to some code of appearance or conduct. Many people whose parents: don't speak english , don't speak spanish; dance the rumba; don't dance forms from latin america; are of asian descent, have been adopted by white europeans and barely know any asians. ... my point. 

 

If you are looking for 100% like another member of aalbc, or maybe yourself when it comes to black crime, then you can forget it in the united states of america. In my experience most black people desire being of some black tribe, in appearance, heritage, culture. But, not 100% and in my view, what your complaining about is the lack of 100% which I oppose. 

 

Pioneer you will always see black people who are white-philes in the usa, ALWAYS. But Black people have always been majority in love with being Black. I think black people like you love to cry emergency with the mere existence of black people who act as you feel they should not, even though said black folk have always been a minority in the black populace.