Obama vs. The Angry Black Man: Fact or Fiction

A good friend, who is a community organizer in his own right, contends rather convincingly that Jesse Jackson's "castrating" comments about Obama are part of an aggregate sacrificial strategy designed to give Obama the national spotlight every six weeks or so and the opportunity to separate himself from the militancy of the "angry" black man (as well as the "white liberal" like Father Michael Pfleger). That in this strategy, Jesse Jackson, Jr., and Deval Patrick become the spokespersons for middle ground politics, making sure that they criticize anything "angry", offbeat, or radical, on Obama's behalf. He speculates that Al Sharpton is probably the next one on the list that Obama will have to seemingly step away from. Thus, the animus seen building between Obama and "angry" black men constitute a mere ruse to placate white Americans who might otherwise withhold their vote for a President Obama fearing that he would "paint the White House black". What say you?