Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!msimpson From: msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Jackson's treated w/kid gloves - (nf) Message-ID: <613@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 12:16:09 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.613 Posted: Tue Mar 6 12:16:09 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 7-Mar-84 00:30:00 EST References: <972@inmet.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 34 *** 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 -- -- cheers, Mike Simpson, BBN msimpson@bbn-unix (ARPA) {decvax,linus,wjh12}!bbncca!msimpson (Usenet) 617-497-2819 (Ma Bell)