Jesse Jackson says Bill Clinton's "sneak attack" on rap singer Sister Souljah "again exposed a character flaw" in the likely Democratic presidential candidate, The New York Times reported Friday.
Jackson, in an interview with the Times, did not directly accuse Clinton of racism but said the incident was "in with a pattern of incidents" in which Clinton seem to be signaling white voters.Clinton touched off the controversy last week during an appearance before Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, when he responded sharply to the rap singer's comment in a Washington Post interview that "if black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?"
Sister Souljah has said she was misquoted.
Clinton has said his critics "have chosen to react against me essentially taking the position, I guess, that because I'm white I shouldn't have said it. And I just disagree with that."
Jackson told the Times that Clinton came to the conference to "stage a very well-planned sneak attack, without the courage to confront but with a calculation to embarrass" him.