> Mitchell, Jerry wrote,
> > There's at least one other posts I've received in the last few
> > hours referring
> > to some black person that stated 'When walking down the street at
> > night, and
> > I hear footsteps, I am relived to find it to be a white person
> > instead of a
> > black person'. Want to know who said that? JESSE JACKSON....
> I know I'm not
> > going to hear anyone say that Jesse is racist against
> blacks now am I?
>
> Sources, please?
>
> It doesn't really matter if he said it or not, but if you're
> going to make
> an argument based on a quote from a famous person, you'd
> better be ready to
> provide a reference.
>
> Many of these kinds of quotes turn out to be rumors started
> by opponents.
> If you don't verify the source, you end up looking silling
> spreading urban
> legends.
>
>
> --
> Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com> <http://Newstaff.com>
>
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment101600b.shtml
It was 1994 to be exact, now can we get back an address the issue? Is Jesse
Jackson a racist? According to the other definitions I've seen here, it
looks like it. He's discriminating based on race. I would say no, because
his statement says nothing about the inherent inferiority/superiority of the
genetics of a race.
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