Tony Brown1*
COMMENTS
Can Jesse Jackson Win?
. .The primary weakness of Jesse Jack
son’s campaign for the Democratic
Party's nomination for President has .
been tested and found genuine.
After months of denying that he is a
-Mack-symbolic candidate and insisting
that he heads a “Rainbow Coalition’’ of
all races, the Jackson campaign limps
into the South, beset by White voter
rejection in the North, to the only
constituency that it ever had - Macks.
Instead of “Rainbow Coalition," the
appropriate slogan all along should have
bgen “Blacks for Jackson." And be
dfesn’t have a lock on that vote either. -
Older blacks are sappprtiqg Mondale;
i younger blacks - the most unlikely to vote
- are Jackson’s solid base.
In the New Hampshire primary
where Jackson spent over $1,000,000 and
mpet of his time, be received only 5,28$
votes or six percent of the total. He tied
for fourth place in a field of eight. Even
Republican Ronald Reagan beat at least
three of the Democratic hopefuls with an
estimated five percent of the Democra
tic contest. • * yt
Jackson’s final campaign days in New
Hampshire were dogged by his calling
Jews “Hymies” and New York “Hymie
town.” This racial slur, first denied by
Jackson, speeded up his slippage in the
polls, which had been underway for over
a month. His final confession came only
after he was forced to admit to using the
racist terms.
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Jackson was falling out of favor with the
vot^S, JJp started Off With 10 percent of -*
the Democratic vote - even before be
officially declared. After his successful
trip to Syria, he went up to 15 percent.
By mid-February and before the Jew
ish slur was made public by the Wash
ington Post. he had sunk to nine permit •
a loss of six percent in one month. Among
Democrats in' the South - where a large
percentage of voters are black - he went
down to 10 percent.
Even in the black community, Jack-'
son’s most solid base of support, by mid
February Mondale had 43 percent of the
black votes and Jackson trailed with 39'
percent Nationally, among Democrats,
. Mondale is also ahead of Jackson 55 to
nine percent, a 46 point lead.
of the Democratic Party, but Jackson
supporters still insist that he is going to
win, that his “Rainbow Coalition” of
issues will attract enough voters to
overtake Mondale.
In order to have any chance of winning
the Democratic Party nomination, Jack
son must insoire blacks. Especially in
Alabama, Florida and Georgia, to vote,
for him on “Super Tuesday," Marchft.
He-must first convince them, however,
that he can win. Although he generates
emotion and excites many blacks, the
Jackson, question becomes, “Can Jesse
win?” " -
., I-asked leaders of two national black
organizations to debate this question on
my program: Rev. Herburt Daughtry,
Chairperson of the National Black United
Front, who is also special assistant to
Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Mr. Roy Innis,
National Chairman of the Congress of
Racial Equality, also known as CORE.
Following are excerpts front that upcom
ing program:
Daughtry: t think he s already won. I
think a people excluded have to define for
themselves what winning is. I think of •
eight ways in which he’s already won.
He’s already won because he has lifted
the hopes and spirits of our people across
the country. He’s already won because of
the greater involvement.
“He’s already won because he has
brought about more unity among our
people. He’s already won because he has
raised tboJevel of political disenttidfl’ We
has brought abtiut a 1dhd 6f
dignity and pride. 1 nmjliH v- ’
"He lias won because he has been a
pioneer. Neva- again will they take
lightly the aspirations if a black man or
woman who says, ‘I’m running for the
Presidency of the United States ’ So in
that sense, he has already won.”
Innis: “I wish that Rev. Daughtry and
' the other enthusiasts of Rev. Jackson .
would have expressed that statement to
the grass roots folks and to the black
students that I’ve been talking to who
believe that Jesse can win - but not in the
poetic sense that Rev. Daughtry just
described for us. But win in terms of
winning the Democratic primary.
“We should understand that very
delicate and important instrument that is
this political revival among black people.
— We shouldn’t toy with it. we shouldn’t
play withit, we shouldn’t run the risk of
dashing hopes against the hard wall of
despair, and this, I think, is what is being
done when ReV. Daughtry and others
around Jesse say to the grass roots, and
say to young black students that he’s
going to win, not meaning it in a poetic
rl .sense."1 -J . , -
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