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Jackson and the Left: Is Jesse the Great White Hope?
Kopkind, Andrew | December 26, 1987 issue

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The article reports on the issue that created misunderstanding between Jesse Jackson and white social democrats. The New York Times' reporter Michael Oreskes wrote a story that asserted that Jackson had asked the Democratic Socialists of America (D.S.A.) to withhold its expected endorsement of his candidacy on the eve of D.S.A.'s national convention. Appended to the endorsement story was Oreskes's short list of Jackson's betrayals of the left, which include, Jackson recently refused to repeat a remark he had made at the United Nations last year comparing the movement against the U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico with the black struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

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JACKSON, Jesse, 1941-; ORESKES, Michael; REPORTERS & reporting; POLITICAL parties -- United States; ELECTIONS; APARTHEID -- South Africa; IMPERIALISM
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