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From: kurtzman@uscvax.UUCP (Stephen Kurtzman)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Jerry Falwell and Reagan
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 20:54:40 EST
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>To repeat, Jackson was asked to denounce Farrakhan solely because of
>Farrakhan's racist statements.
>
>Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan

Actually, Jackson was asked to denounce Farrakhan for two reasons:

	1) Farrakhan's racist statements.
	2) Jackson is black.

The call for Jackson to denounce Farrakhan, while not necessarily racist in
motive, had racist overtones.

A similar event occurred in LA when people started demanding that Tom
Bradley denounce Farrakhan. It was a deliberate attempt by republican forces
in this state to make Tom Bradley look bad.  In case you don't know about
California politics, Tom Bradley (democrat, black, mayor of LA) barely lost
the governorship to George "Duke" Dukmejian (republican, white). The margin
of victory for Duke was the same as the percentage of democrats that said
they could not vote for a black man. In short, the last election was decided
in large part due to racism. With another election coming up, and Bradley
not yet having announced the political dirty tricks and smear campaigns are
starting.