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...claim that an allegedly "abysmal record" on "Black-Jewish relations" nullifies the many laudable aspects of the Jackson campaign is both ludicrous and arrogant. First, the existence of genuine "Black-Jewish relations" which Reverend Jackson could have damaged is simply an illusion from which we urge Hirschorn to free himself. Furthermore, there can be no basis for any such relations as long as American Jews either defend, or silently condone. Israel's role in buttressing the racist South African regime (See Noam Chomsky's The Fateful Triangle) Secondly, the recent tensions between Reverend Jackson and American Jews are of little...
...continued uproar over Minister Farrakhan's response to Milton Coleman's action has consistently remained afactual; Hirschorn's tirade, unfortunately, is no exception. First, Milton Coleman admits to violating a confidence with Reverend Jackson--a confidence of the type that is common between reporters and political figures. His only defense--which shows that he knew he did something wrong--was that Jackson had allegedly made this remark among other Black reporters. However, on ABC's Nightline, one Black reporter, Kenneth Walker of ABC News, said that this "simply is not true...
Perhaps the most deplorable aspect of Coleman's action was his utter insensitivity to the fact that breaking this confidence helped to accentuate the climate of danger that already surrounded Reverend Jackson. Somehow Hirschorn and others consistently overlook this, while condemning the one alleged threat against Coleman's life, they remain silent about the more than one hundred death threats against Reverend Jackson (far greater than the number received by any other candidate), or the bombing of his headquarters in Anaheim, California by two whites. We, like Minister Farrakhan, feel that Coleman or anyone who would so carelessly enhance such...
...also compelled to address Hirschorn's assertion that Reverend Jackson has created an "almost absolute schism" between Black and white voters. Rather, we must address the simple, yet virulent racism that is the impetus behind this and other such grotesque examples of non-analysis...
Only an arrogance stemming from the most vulgar strain of racism could allow Hirschorn to suggest that Reverend Jackson's candidacy has split Blacks and whites in this country. In reality, there has been such a schism, created, nurtured and refined by whites since the first slave ship reached these shores in 1619. What Reverend Jackson's candidacy has done is recognize this schism and provide an opportunity for Black voters to participate in, and, by so doing, transform, a political system which has this schism as a fundamental part of its foundation, and which, therefore, is itself morally bankrupt...