Why was Jesse Jackson seen as nothing but the "black candidate" (user search)
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« on: January 23, 2019, 03:43:32 PM »

In the 1980's racism and racial tensions were worse. Crime was much higher, and crime was always tied to blacks. A lot of white suburbanites in the 1980's were afraid of blacks breaking into their homes at night and robbing them. It was only 20 years before the 1980's that blacks were being lynched and denied the right to vote. Even a 'white friendly' non threatening black candidate like Obama would have lost in the 80's. It wasn't until  crime declined in the 1990's for the average white person to put crime and the fear of blacks on the back burner.
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