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From: msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson)
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Subject: Re: Jackson's treated w/kid gloves - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 12:16:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  6 12:16:09 1984
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6 March 1984.

        Several years ago, other people of color were struggling
to achieve equality in Caucasian-dominated American society.  We
wished to be treated just as equals, with no favoritism or
tokenism. 

        Unfortunately, the 'kid-gloves' treatment that Jesse
Jackson has received from the press is still tokenism, because he
is being treated as if he can't take the heat for his 'Hymie'
statement. 

        Had, say, John Glenn or Walter Mondale made such a
statement, he would be lambasted from one side of the newspapers
to the other.  And let's not even imagine what would have
happened had the President made such a gaffe. 

        So why am I so down hearted?  Because, like Jackson, and
like one in ten Americans, I am Black.  And this kind of
treatment not only demeans Jackson, but other Black people as
well.

        Sigh.  Maybe my children will see true equality in
American politics.  I'm working on it, but now see even more
clearly how far we still have to go. 

			-- Mike Simpson, BBN
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