An Open Letter
(Ward)
An open letter to the Rev. Jesse Jackson,
We, the members of the Mojo family, feel that your actions and retoric as a self professed leader of the
black community are in fact detrimental to the very people you claim to represent. We also feel that as a
result you do much to undermind the well-being and harmony of the United States as a whole. You kind of
work for the advancement of the black community and you speak from a position that the black population
cannot advance itself socialy, politically or economically because an immovable object, the white
establishment, forever blocks its path. Yet you preach further support such as welfare and affirmative action
that put members of the population in a position of dependancy and reliance on the establishment. You bask
in the glow of the media spot light, you passionately decree that racism and prejudice are alive today as they
were four hundred years ago, but does this do anything to reverse it's effect? No one with the intellegence
will deny that a great atrocity was commited against the black race at the hands of white settlers of this
country, but a wound cannot heal if it is continuously re-opened. That is to say, that it will heal but it will take
much longer and the scar it leaves will be grotesque and raise high on the skin.
A true leader leads by example and the example you have shown is not one of stregnth of character,
self-reliance, commentment to excellence or personal accountability. It's these traits that are necessary to
advace oneself as an individual. It is only as strong curagous and moral individuals that any race can live the
quality of life that it chooses. We give our deepest respect to the true leaders: Alan Keys, J.C. Watts, ?,
Tony Brown, and Dr. Walter Williams. Men who never deny their heritege but are proud to be first and
foremost a part of the human race.