The Uncle Tom Effect

"There are black racists alive and well in this country, just like the other side. They think if Barack is President then all of their problems are over with because he will take care of them because they are black too. I am afraid that when he gets to the White House, he will then be called an Uncle Tom for not catering to the relatively few blacks that believed the wrong thing".

These were my comments earlier this year in an article I wrote called "An American View-Racism-Still Alive".

Now as we sit back and watch Jesse Jackson show out, we can see that Barack's success is starting to wear thin on the black community. Not all of the black community is negative about Barack. It appears a few have made it known they were jealous, not is direct terms, but I have found the majority of the black community embraces Barack and what he will do as President. Jesse Jackson's son is one of those people. He sees the promise in Obama as a good man and fair minded individual. His criticism of his dad was justified and showed he is his own man.

For many, many years in this country we have seen the backward mentality of the black Americans across the country change to one of being an American for what it means for everyone. It has been a long progression of struggle and strife.

If you have never heard of "Uncle Tom", he was a black man that many, many years ago in the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom is a negative title for a black person who seen behaving as a slave to White American authority figures, or sucking up to them to get favored treatment. The term Uncle Tom comes from the title character of Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

It is also commonly used to describe black people whose political views or allegiances are considered by their critics to be bad for the blacks as a group.

We already know Jesse Jackson has seen a lot of the bad in terms of the treatment of the black community. He was a supporter of Dr. King. However, his surprise statements about Obama seem to suggest this above theory of the situation.