Blacks and White Liberals: A New Relationship

All available signs indicate that Jesse Jackson will again run for the presidency in 1988. A prominent feature of his second candidacy will probably be implicit or explicit threats to bolt the Democratic party and run as an independent in the general election if the “rainbow coalition” does not receive “fair” treatment from the party’s leaders in the primary campaign.

Democratic leaders, who know that black voters are an indispensable part of any conceivab...