Reply #15: well said, of course [View All]

when i was in high school in 1988, i remember hearing from relatives that Jesse Jackson would "only help the blacks" and I heard that again and again. back then, I was a big fan of Reagan and the Republicans and yet I remember stopping to watch Jackson's speech to the convention and as he recounted the nation's challenges and intoned, "I understand", I thought, "he wants to help all of us, he really does" and I realized how unfairly his candidacy had been treated (yes, he had his flaws of course), but we know that he didn't lose because of his flaws --he lost because of misconceptions related to his race.

i only realized that when i saw him speak to the convention. that was the slow beginning of me questioning the rightness of things I heard about my country.

i remember it like it was yesterday.