JESSE JACKSON IS A TYPICAL WHITE MAN

ED KOCH, REAL CLEAR POLITICS Now to Obama's grandmother. There was a time spanning the 70's to the mid-90's when many blacks and whites in large American cities expressed the same feelings on street crime held by Obama's grandmother. Indeed, Reverend Jesse Jackson made similar comments in 1993 at a meeting of his organization, Operation Push, devoted to street crime. According to a November 29, 1993, article in the Chicago Sun-Times, he said, "We must face the No. 1 critical issue of our day. It is youth crime in general and black-on-black crime in particular." Then Jackson told the audience, "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved. . . After all we have been through,' he said. 'Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating."