Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxm!berman From: berman@ihuxm.UUCP (berman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Jackson, Cramer, JDL and the Klan Message-ID: <925@ihuxm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 09:43:39 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxm.925 Posted: Wed Mar 7 09:43:39 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 07:39:46 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 22 Sam Cramer compares Jackson's gaffe with the anti-semitism of the KKK! Oh how righteous we can be when a leader of the Black Communitity makes a slip! Jackson has been going to synagogues of late, apologizing, asking for forgiveness, pledging never to use insensitive racial references again. While not the most regular of attendees, I just haven't seen any Klansmen doing likewise. Yes the remark was stupid. Yes it was insensitive. Yes it was disappointing. And yes it reflects the tension that has grown in recent years between the Black and Jewish communities in this country. That tension, in itself, is a shame. As Jackson has pointed out, tension between two peoples who have suffered discrimination in American society serves neither. But to see the event as anything else than a media event, a chance for the establishment to jump on movement that was gaining a wide range of support is an error. Jackson's candidacy has long been under attack by the neo-fascist JDL for "anti-semitism." One should look carefully before joining that bandwagon. Andy Berman