Could you imagine the howls if some conservative leader made the statement that one cannot call oneself a white man if you supported Obama’s nationalization of health care?

Why, then, is there not similar disgust over this statement from a Democrat elder statesman?

The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Wednesday night criticized Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.) for voting against the Democrats’ signature healthcare bill.

“We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.”

Seems appropriate that this statement came at the same time that Robert Byrd (D-KKK) became the longest serving member of the US Senate. The coincidence only serves to show that the Democrats are now, as they always have been, the party of racism and race-baiting – and that the only difference between folks like Byrd and Jackson are their skin tone and the color of their robes.