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There is the fallacy that Mexicans, Salvadorans and Haitians threaten our jobs--a fallacy because these are jobs that even the poorest American citizens refuse to take. And the prejudiced stereotype of Asians as miracle-brains seems a good excuse to limit our sympathy. Xenophobia is nothing less than and insidious form of racism...
...that the civil rights movement was internally riven by the time Jackson joined it. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was being shoved out of its original nest in Atlanta and was meeting resistance from established black preachers in Chicago. Jackson, who was not even a minister yet (and therefore less of a threat) was given Operation Breadbasket to operate on indeterminate territory partway between SCLC and Chicago's local pastors. The group met, as its successor Operation PUSH still does, on Saturday mornings, so as not to invade the sacred turf of the Sunday preachers. Jackson was "included out" from...
...Overcome. Jackson rebuked his followers: "When I think about the roads I've walked with Andy, and the leadership of Mrs. King -- her home bombed, her husband assassinated, her children raised by a widow -- she deserves to be heard." Those who talk about a "changed" Jackson in this campaign, less strident and more conciliatory, were not watching that tense moment in the 1984 campaign...
...garnered the support of Hispanics in South Texas and Frost Belt refugees in the condo canyons of South Florida did not transform Dukakis into a win-Dixie Democrat. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor left few footprints in the red clay of the traditional South; in Alabama and Mississippi, he won less than 10% of the vote. "Dukakis gained a half step on everyone else this week," said Democratic Pollster Peter Hart. "But he still has a lot of work to do. He has to get to working-class Democrats, and to do that he needs an economic message of change...
...trying to identify himself as a hawk almost in the Scoop Jackson mold even as his private pollsters were insisting that Democratic voters in the South were as uninterested in nuclear strategy as voters elsewhere. But Gore stubbornly refused to modify his approach, even though his record was far less right-of-center than his rhetoric was. According to a top strategist for the candidate, "99% of the problem was Gore's. He refused to give a clearer message and forget about all this defense business...