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IN COVERING Jesse Jackson as the only possible Black Presidential candidate, the press now and then quotes him about the need for a rainbow coalition of Blacks, Latinos, women, poor people, and disadvantaged groups. Mostly, though, the media talks about the maturation of Blacks in politics; whether a Jackson candidacy...
Though Afro-American politics is presently only at the formative stage of this kind of political maturation--compared, say, to Jewish-American politics--the importance of Jesse Jackson's bid for a presidential candidacy is its potential for generating political benefits infinitely superior to those produced by Black leadership heretofore...
Owing to Jesse Jackson's unique charismatic capacity for populist around among lower-starts Afro-Americans, a Jackson presidential candidacy is capable of smashing Black voter apathy and, thereby, affecting the outcome of Reagan's bid for a second term even if Reagan gained his 1980 percentage of white votes...
Thus a spur to more Black candidacies for elected office and an assist to the death knell of Black voter apathy constitute important spinoffs from a Jesse Jackson presidential candidacy, thoroughly justifying it. These benefits over-shadow the concern of Jackson's detractors among Afro-American leaders like Benjamin Hooks...
Surely Jackson knows he can't win many if any primaries, and at best he will end up at the Democratic Convention with less than 300 out of a total of 3933 delegates. But so what! Victory for a Jackson candidacy is not measured in this conventional manner. Jackson, a...