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A Break from COVID-19: Ronald Reagan, Jesse Jackson, and Judge Robert Bork
Author’s Note:
This is an attempt to take a short break from thinking about, talking about, writing about, being about the Covid/Coronavirus plague which has so drastically changed our lives.
It is also a chance to take a look back, reminisce and recall just exactly what we were thinking about, talking about, writing about “back in the day.”
In 1987, I was writing for something called Syndicated Writers & Artists of America, Inc. out of Indianapolis. That now-defunct company was rather unique in that it was one of a very few black-owned and operated creative arts syndicators in the country. Indeed, it provided me with my first national exposure. This piece, however, first appeared as an editorial in the still extant black-owned/operated Indianapolis Recorder daily newspaper, another rarity.
There was no Internet back then, of course. In fact, the Internet was still just a twinkle in Al Gore’s eye.
At the time, St. Ronald Reagan was president, and Jesse Jackson was gearing up for yet another run for the presidency. Reagan’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Robert Bork, went down in flames in a series of fiery and contentious Senate Judiciary Committee hearings (on which sat Senator Joe Biden, by the…
