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...same TV program, Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, (R-Kan.) a former Bush opponent in the GOP primaries, also was asked if the Bush campaign's Willie Horton ads were racially motivated...
...Boston, Jackson avoided the word "racist" but said the Horton case was one of several "rather ugly race-conscious signals" sent out by the Bush campaign...
...Willie Horton example is designed to create the most horrible psycho-sexual fears," Jackson said. "The furlough ad with black and brown faces rotating in and out of jail, the use of the Jackson-Dukakis ticket symbolism, which is distortion, referring to me as a Chicago hustler...there have been a number of rather ugly race-conscious signals sent from that campaign...
Goodin said the GOP campaign's television commercials focused not on Horton but on "how he got out of prison." He said correctly that Massachusetts granted furloughs to convicted first-degree murderers serving life without the possibility of parole. That policy was rescinded last spring...
...insinuate that racism is involved in the furlough issue operates from the ridiculous premise that Black citizens care less about having a monster in their neighborhoods like Willie Horton than do white people," Goodin said...