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Article: Jackson's Free Ride; "For Jackson, and for no one else, there is a statute of limitations on extremism."
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 1, 1988
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With characteristic modesty, Jesse Jackson casts the current
election as a test of America's maturity and racial tolerance. If I
can't win, we all lose, Jackson tells his audiences. They can only
be true to America by voting for him. If they don't, they are
somehow violating the American Dream.
This election is indeed a test of American political and racial
maturity. But not exactly in the way Jackson thinks. The real test
is whether America's political class-the media and the politicians,
including Jackson's opponents-will treat Jackson seriously. That
means subjecting him to the same kind of scrutiny on issues and
ideology to which they subject white candidates.
Until now Jackson has ...