From the March 18, 1996 print edition of U.S. News & World Report:
With media that focus relentlessly on the negative, the public largely ignores the emergence of a black middle class. For too many of us, black has become synonymous with family breakdown, poverty, drugs, crime and, worst of all, hopelessness. Even Jesse Jackson said a few years ago, "There is nothing more painful to me ... than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.It used to be painful to me too, but things have improved so much over the years that I'm no longer fearful.
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But Jesse won't have a calling without black dysfunction. Neither will Reverend Al. When they turn around and see a black guy and don't get frightened, that's when they really will get frightened. For their careers!
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