For those with short memories, Finkelstein noted that Obama's reference to his white grandmother's "fear of black men who passed by her on the street" was eerily similar to a statement Jesse Jackson made in 1996.
On Wednesday's "Morning Joe," Scarborough was concerned about the very same thing (video available here):
First of all, his grandmother being afraid of African-American men walking near her on the street, that's just what Jesse Jackson said in the past and got in trouble for saying that.
Nice catch, guys.
