I can understand why Jesse Jackson is stirring up that high school situation in Decatur, Ill. Jesse hasn't had a hit record in a long time.

Full-grown guys start a brawl, a few get suspended and Jackson refers to them as "children" as if they were little tots to be escorted into the school. This is Selma-lite.

For Jackson to equate the Decatur controversy with the achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela is to trivialize both of them. Has Jesse been to the mountaintop? In Decatur, it's more of a molehill.

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Or '60s nostalgia. Where is Gov. George Wallace now that Jesse Jackson needs him?

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