Monday, Apr. 19, 1976

THE CAMPAIGN: Candidate Carter: 1 Apologize’

Slamming a fist against his desk, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson last week postponed plans to endorse Jimmy Carter and angrily exclaimed: “Is there no white politician I can trust?” Jesse Jackson, director of Chicago’s Operation PUSH, called Carter’s views “a throwback to Hitlerian racism.” Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., declared: “We’ve created a Frankenstein’s monster with a Southern drawl, a more cultured version of the old Confederate at the schoolhouse door.” Added Civil Rights Activist Bayard Rustin of New York: “He is only giving ammunition to those who would divide America. [He has] a big smile with no heart.”

What outraged the black leaders was Carter’s ill-considered remarks last week about neighborhood integration.

One of his phrases, “ethnic purity,” particularly offended many blacks and whites. The episode had overnight become the cause celebre of the campaign and sent the Carter camp reeling. Was this one of those fatal slips that can destroy a candidate? For the first time in what had been a near faultless campaign to reach the White House, the candidate had stumbled badly. He had confidently fielded highly complex issues, from abortion to defense spending, yet he ignited a brushfire over race—just as white liberals were beginning to swing behind him and his broad support among blacks was being widely noted (TIME, April 5).

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Contrite Retreat. Finally, Carter bowed to the pressure and backed down. At a press conference in Philadelphia, he contritely retreated from his language —but not his stand on public housing. Said he: “I was careless in the words I used, and I apologize for it. It was a very serious mistake.” He took a further step toward working his way out of trouble with black voters. He announced that he no longer regards the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill as too costly because it has been significantly amended, and now supports it. The measure would require the Government to reduce adult unemployment to less than 3%—a plan that is strongly endorsed by most black leaders.

As a matter of fact…….we are taking out the trash right now.

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Good luck to you on your search.

You are welcome in advance.

This is information the Left Wing Media does NOT want people to remember. So any time someone pops off about “Barack the Magic Negro” please direct them to Mr. Ehrenstein. It was from his article that Paul Shanklin was inspired to write his song.

He’ll stand back and act prim while the media does his slandering for him. It’s like watching a mob boss go “Hey, son, I don’t mean you no harm, but Vinny and Claude, here, they get violent sometimes–and if you don’t do what I want, I don’t know that I can stop ‘em.”