Dreamers seek a way and find a place for all under the tent. Dream busters rationalize ways to lock them out. They work on ways to build walls rather than bridges. Rev. Jackson said the ties that bind blacks and Jews are shared values and suffering, religious values that obligate the two groups' behavior patterns, the threat of fascism, and stereotyping. Nevertheless, economic gaps that divide the rich from the poor must be addressed if America is to remain strong.
Structural gaps require structural bridges.
Jews and blacks should work together for economic justice and fight to give all people equal opportunity, he said. Because we're winners. Those who did not want to make lynching a federal crime-they lost, we won. Those who did not want women to have the right to vote-they lost, we're winners. Those who fought to keep us apart-here we sit as the millennium ends.