He said he intends to ask black voters why they are “allowing the Tea Party to be made into your enemy and the radical homosexual rights people to be made into your friends and allies when they reject everything you believe and most of the Tea Party activists embrace everything you believe.” Jackson urged African Americans to “come out of that indoctrination, what I call a liberal plantation of psychological bondage.”

Translation: When has big government ever helped Black people? Except for the Civil Rights Act. And the Voting Rights Act. And Social Security. And Medicare. And Medicaid. And student loans. And safer food. And the eight-hour workday. Except for all of those things, what good has Big Government done for the Black community?