Will Jesse Jackson Apologize To the Duke Lacrosse Players?

On April 24,2006 Jesse Jackson said this in the Chicago Defender:

Black women; white men. A stripper; and a team blowout. The wealthy white athletes – many from prep schools – of Duke; and the working class woman from historically black North Carolina Central. Race and class and sex. What happened? We don’t know for sure because the Duke players are maintaining a code of silence.

The history of white men and black women – the special fantasies and realities of exploitation – goes back to the nation’s beginning and the arrival of slaves from Africa. The patterns associated with this history arouse fears and evoke too many bad memories.

When will Jesse Jackson apologize to the Duke lacrosse players? Why does Goldman Sachs finance a race hustler?