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Article: THE BLACK MAN DID IT! S.C. accusations nothing new
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- November 8, 1994
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Michael Dabney
Philadelphia Tribune, The
11-08-1994
THE BLACK MAN DID IT! S.C. accusations nothing new.
By Michael Dabney
Tribune Correspondent
Rev. Jesse Jackson said in Philadelphia this weekend that the nation's atmosphere of "hate, hurt and hosthity allowed a sick, young South Carolina mother to "create a mythological Black person and get Blacks interrogated."
Jackson's comments came in the wake of false allegations that a Black man two weeks ago carjacked a vehicle containing two young white boys.
"I stood up and was prepared to make a public appeal if a young Black man had those two children," Jackson said at an AFL-CIO get-out-the-vote rally at Temple University. "Now that the young ...