Regarding your editorial of Saturday, July 30, ”Chicago takes another bum rap,” Eugene Kennedy`s observation of Jesse Jackson`s ”silence” is at the core of what troubles me about Jesse Jackson.
When Mayor Washington died, Jesse Jackson couldn`t get back to Chicago fast enough. When the Steven Cokely affair became a festering sore, where was Jesse Jackson? Indeed, a number of concerned leaders in Chicago, blacks and Jews, bravely stepped forward; Jesse Jackson was not among them.
I`m curious to know why you think Jesse Jackson`s silence when Steven Cokely and those allied with him were expressing ”racial resentment” was anything more than self-serving and devoid of the leadership he is touting?
Whose ”fragile sensibilities” was he protecting? His silence spoke loud and clear to me.
