The “preezy of the United Steezy” begs to differ.

Via WaPo:

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said Wednesday that President Obama needs to be more careful about what he says and does than do white politicians because of his race.

Jackson said there remains a double standard in American society and the media and that Obama doesn’t have the “same lattitude” as someone like President Bill Clinton did.

“I’m sensitive to President Barack’s predicament, because even the press has its own cultural race twist,” Jackson said in an interview with The Washington Post. “If he had blown a saxophone like Clinton did on ‘Arsenio Hall,’ he’d have been dismissed as a joke.”

He said he didn’t foresee the “meanness” and the instant backlash that Obama would face.

“I’m not sure that I expected such a radical [response]” after the election, Jackson said. “Even the right wing was proud of the victory. It was a big victory for America that night. America had done something big.” But Jackson said it was too short-lived.

“My God, the next night, the tears got wiped away,” Jackson said. “The backlash has been so severe. It has not been an idle backlash. This is a real, organized, ideological, fundamental, states’ rights, federal backlash.”