Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jackson described the shared characteristics of the dream as equal treatment, opportunity, access to social goods and entitlement to those goods. All of these requirements, Jackson maintains, will build a "big tent" open to all "those who yearn to breath...
...enlarge the tent through economic channels involves, according to Jackson, bridging the gap between the "state of the political union" and the "state of Wall Street." This process will require the navigation of two very different sets of economic systems...
...Jackson said that opponents of affirmative action couch the debate concerning reconciliation of these systems in the language of race, obscuring underlying economic issues...
...There is no race gap," he said. "There are gaps which are quantifiable...gaps in education...gaps in the legal system--who goes to jail and who goes to school," Jackson said...
...Jackson used the recent Super Bowl to support his argument. "There were blacks in Denver pulling for whites in Denver to tackle whites in Green Bay," he said. "There were no race incidents and they were in hand-to-hand combat...