Tony Brown's COMMENTS Should Jackson Run For President? If Jesse Jackson wants to be Presi dent, he should run for President Jackson is now at a point - due to Us success in attracting and getting out the black vote-that he must decide between ' being a power tanker at the Demo cratic convention and running as an Independent for President. I must admit that as a political Independent and an advocate of inde pendent black political power and a personal believer in independence (“God bless the cfaUd that’s got Us own!”), I am swayed by my bias in the direction of non-dependence. By any political yardstick, Jackson has defied the odds and he has owitwis them; in a few instances, he has over whelmed them. Without paid television commercials, he has won significant percentages of primaries and caucuses. All of this, of course, is due to Us ability to mobilize black people. /vuhj among run acmevemenls ts bis ability to adwate homosexual and gay rights and abortion and develop a con - -T ■ 11 I M°-* “*>""* »* *« «nl« time - no small feat. He has admitted to using an ethnic slur and has not been harmed among blacks. In Us own party, he has defied the labor gods and the party bosses with his call for new rules and has hurt both of Us party’s frontrunners by siphoning off the black vote. Under Democratic rules, he received 17 percent of the 35 delegatee in Arkan sas, hot he got 34 percent of the votes. But in Mississippi, be won more delegates than Walter Mondale or Gary Hart The rates have worked for »«! ipimt Jackson, but have not diluted the enor mous impact of record-black turnouts In the primaries. Although Jackson’s projected 300-odd delegates will give him, perhaps, the balance of power at the convention, they will not give him the nomination. With all of this black success tinder his 'belt, Jscksouamsflace the future ami reality. He must now turn Ms voting bloc over to Mondale or Hart, the likely winners at the convention. Or he must keep the black vote and run - against Ronald Reagan and the Demo cratic winner in November. For the first time, he would truly be a candidate far PresidenL But Jackson’s fears are that he would be blamed if Reagan were to win. Mondale cannot beat Reagan. Hart would have a good chance, but Hart probably can’t get the nomination. That’s the real dilemma of the Democratic Party - not Jesse Jackson’s naming as an Independent u Jackson does stay in the party - as he has said he would - he facts the awesome problem of turUi« Us follow ers over to Mandate or Hart. Reagan, of coarse, would serve as the bad guy. Jackson would aim at n*aga« and try not to look like a campaign Mifahpt to his farmer peers. Jackson will have great difficulty again, pulling that one off. -“T-- “It spat nf tlte trtanaU » Jackson boasted when spaakii« of his peer relationship to Mandate and Hart, “and that is the very cppmita of (blacks) being taken for granted by the Democrats or written off by ffie Repu blican.” White Democrats will never own the blade vote again - th»nk« to Jackson. Some black will always run from now on. The Republicans on the nth—- hand are terrified that blacks will turn out the vote and beat them from City Hall to the White House in November. Jackson has also demonstrated that in sohrii* one dilemma, he has created another. He may have to play it safe and support file white choice of his party. .. “Tony Brawn's Journal" TV series caa be seen on public tetevistea Snaday. sa Chaaad 42 at S p jn. U caa als# be seen an Chaanal M. Snaday. at C:M pja Please coo salt listings. spring Concert ‘ UNCC* Spring Concert “Jam-up” will be heM an Friday, April 6, in the Charlotte Coliseum. 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