Two things here:
First, Rent-a-Riot Jackson is famous for stirring up the bonfire of hatred and walking away from the fire when it looks like it is to his advantage to do so.
I have been listening to C-SPAN and NPR a lot lately. The numbers of blacks phoning in and saying that they will never accept Bush regardless as to what Jackson says and that they feel that somehow Bush personally had something to do with any voting irregularities is staggering. Jackson's alledged "bridge building" is too little, too late.
Second, I believe that it is now the blacks themselves who are keeping the American people from coming together. I regularly see much more hatred and wish for separation coming from blacks than whites. I, for one, (speaking as a non-black) am more than ready to put our segregationist, bigoted history well behind us and accepting all people into an all-inclusive group of self-sufficient, proud Americans.
So long as Jackson, Sharpton and Farrakhan are the types of people leading the blacks, they will never become a real part of our "people". These three people are as bigoted and wrong minded as any Klansman or Jim Crowe supporting politician of the last century. (Only it is not PC to say that they are Bigots because that is a term reserved for whites only.)