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Anti-NEA invective has hit a nerve and thus proved a fund-raising tool for Senator Jesse Helms and other conservatives. Last week it became a rallying point for presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan. Assailing Tongues Untied, a PBS documentary by a gay black who received $5,000 from the NEA...
But just when he seemed to be rolling in Southern clover, Willie went off half-cocked at an open mike, lambasting Jesse Jackson for supposed backstabbing. Now Jesse will likely orchestrate a prolonged public apologia from the Son of the South -- which, no matter how it goes, may rile black...
"[They] were concerned that the views of the disenfranchised would be left out, especially with the Reverend Jesse Jackson not running," Chapman says.
The first problem has always plagued Hispanic causes. African-Americans have always had strong leaders with a national presence from W.E.B. Du Bois to Martin Luther King Jr. to Jesse Jackson and a long string of local and Congressional leaders.
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Ajemian, Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Mary Cronin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Christopher Ogden, Dennis Overbye, Edwin M. Reingold, Richard Schickel, Gavin Scott, R.Z. Sheppard...