Word: hymietown
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...landscape for almost as long as anyone could remember, or so it seemed: through snowy primaries and caucuses, through the various carnages of Iowa (Glenn nearly gone) and New Hampshire (Hart a sudden phenomenon, the "Mondale juggernaut" confounded), through Super Tuesday and Farrakhan, through Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown" and San Francisco and Dallas and Louisville and Kansas City...
There is the Jesse Jackson that many whites distrust and some even fear. He is the former black radical, the civil rights leader who threatened white businessmen with economic boycotts, the presidential candidate who called Jews "Hymie" and New York City " Hymietown." In his shadow, neither embraced nor disavowed, stands Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim sect, who has praised Hitler and seemed to threaten a black reporter with death...
...Jackson's unattractive waffling in re Hymietown, it is of course indefensible, but it certainly doesn't disqualify him from American presidential politics. Hirschorn, like most of his professional colleagues, professes outrage at the hypocrisy the candidate displays in touting his morality and then employing detestable language. Well, if anyone accepted Jackson's rhetoric as face value, they're now forewarned: he's more politician than clergyman. But we've all known for years that every American president in recent memory relished the use of this kind of language in private; perhaps it's part of some macho politician...
...three-week-old speech became an issue just before the New York primary, Jackson says, suggests political "tricks and treachery." Farrakhan is riled at Coleman for reporting, in a Post story in February, that Jackson privately disparaged Jews with the term Hymie and referred to New York City as "Hymietown." To the Muslim leader, the reporter violated black solidarity by writing a story that hurt Jackson. Coleman and other black journalists, he said, are "pure chump operatives]" of white editors. Farrakhan's 10,000-member sect, an offshoot of the less militant and racially integrated American Muslim Mission (membership...
Jackson's "Hymietown" remarks were indeed condemnable--but largely within the context of his actions; e.g., embracing P.L.O. leader Arafat and then, amazingly, proclaiming himself representative of all ethnic interests...