Jesse Jackson used N-word in TV interview

THE Reverend Jesse Jackson used the N-word during a break in a TV interview where he criticised presidential candidate Barack Obama, Fox News said.

The longtime civil rights leader already came under fire this month for crude off-air comments he made against Obama in what he thought was a private conversation during a taping of a Fox & Friends news show.

In additional comments from that same conversation, Jackson is reported to have said Obama was “talking down to black people”, and referred to blacks with the N-word when he said Obama was telling them “how to behave”.