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...recent declaration by Reverend Jesse Jackson that Americans of African ancestry should henceforth be known as African-Americans adds a popular voice to a concept put forth by Black intellectuals for many years. This is a very serious matter because it involves the labeling of some 30 million North Americans (and millions in the Caribbean and Latin America) who can trace part of their ancestry back to Africa. In our search for a positive identity of our own choosing, we have gone from African, to Colored, to Negro, to Black (a protest term which demonstrated that we preferred to identify...
...woman in front of us seemed edified, though. "I'm going home and ask Sylvia if she knows who Robert Newman is," she says, apparently undismayed by the technocratic reverend...
...Reverend Jesse Jackson was cheered wildly by Democratic party activists when he called for continuing the fight for ERA, but most Americans don't seem to share that enthusiasm. Voters in Maine and liberal Vermont, the latest to consider referendums on the proposal, handed feminists two more defeats. Schlafly says Americans don't want to endorse what she calls the "hidden agenda" of ERA activists. If passed, the law will be used to mandate "taxpayer-funded abortions and gay rights," she said...
...Democrats even used Reverend Billy Graham, the most respected Southern evangical baptist in the United States. I guess they were looking to a higher source for help...
Jackson supporters are complaining about the way Jackson found out. A reporter in the airport informed Jackson of Dukakis decision to pick Senator Bentsen as his running mate. Dukakis said that he phoned Jackson but the reverend was already on a plane going to Washington...