That’s not talking down to blacks, that’s telling his fellow blacks what they need to hear. After all, all of us, black and white men alike, need to be real fathers in our homes. It’s not a race issue, it’s not a political issue. It’s a moral issue. Obama sees that. Jesse can’t.

Obama neuters Jesse when he echoes the hated George Bush in favoring a faith-based initiative. The fact that a black American is taking such positions which are counter-intuitive to Jesse’s, emasculates Jesse, especially when many black Americans applaud Obama for doing so.

Obama has not only neutered Jesse, he has for the most part gagged him by making just about everything Jesse says sound irrelevant and passé. Obama looks ahead. Jesse looks back on a now-dead past.

Jesse’s fellow blacks have bolted Jesse’s plantation and moved so far ahead that are on the verge of having one of their number win the White House, and doing it by winning the votes of vast numbers of white Americans, an affront to Jesse who would have us believe that white America is a racist America which would never cast a vote for an African American.

That can’t happen in Jesse’s world and the fact that it might well happen in November has rendered Jesse’s voice a voice from a now-dead past that Barack Obama has forever silenced.

It’s not Obama’s manhood that’s been sliced off, it’s Jesse’s and he doesn’t like it one little bit. Obama has foreclosed on his plantation, and freed his fellow blacks from Jesse’s grip.

Bye-bye, Jesse.