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One is Chicago's Rev. Jesse Jackson. A strong advocate of the theory that white America not only is racist but is losing any feelings of guilt, Jackson urges blacks to turn inward and help themselves. "You must aim high," he has advised. "You must believe you can become a doctor or lawyer or nurse or the alderman for your ward." After the Miami riots, Jackson told his followers in Chicago: "Our young people must not consider it a badge of courage, with blood in their eyes, to run headlong into an organized military brigade, and to run from genocide to suicide. It's a bad strategy and it will not work."
Instead of rioting, Jackson said, blacks should "march in large numbers." If they do, "they would also get attention. Massive voting gets attention too." Yet one of the great uncertainties in American race relations is whether blacks will listen any more carefully to the voices of such leaders than whites listen to the angry voices being raised today in the ghettos.