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Epton, a Jewish millionaire and successful lawyer, is an unlikely hero for Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods. He is certainly no racist, himself, and once marched in Memphis in memory of the late Martin Luther King Jr. But his newest ads have played on the underlying theme of the election with the tag line: EPTON-BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. The Chicago Tribune characterized Epton's constant disavowals of race as an issue as "the ring of a man who doth protest too much...
...night before I read your article on the racist comments directed at basketball's Patrick Ewing, I attended the Georgetown-Syracuse game in Landover, Md. Behind me, a spectator was yelling racial epithets at Ewing. Considering the noise around the court, it was unlikely that Ewing could hear him. However, blacks sitting near by heard him. It was obvious that the blacks in the stands were the real targets of the insults...
...Black] Washington" she then concludes that all of the white Democrats who vote for or in favor of Epton are therefore voting on the basis of race. That is a fair statement--any person who votes for a candidate solely on the basis of color deserves to be called racist...
...Epton and Washington, one must conclude that the 80 percent of Blacks who cast ballots for Washington were also voting solely on the basis of color. And yet no mention is made of this in the editorial Whites who vote for a white are (and should be) called racists are not then Blacks who vote for a Black simply because be is of the same ethnic group equally racist...
...Byrne will probably manage only to make herself appear more racist. If she is taken seriously in the election--and in a city so easily spurred by racism, there's a good chance she will be--she will take votes from Epton before she cuts into Washington's Black voting block...