He Needs a Dream
Rick Reilly
January 24, 2000
I admire the Reverend Jesse Jackson. I think he's one of America's heroes. The man goes behind enemy lines to negotiate the release of captured U.S. servicemen, gets millions of minorities to register to vote and works the pulpit for equality the way Stradivarius worked spruce and maple.
And I call on Foot Locker to explain why the black shoelaces are stacked behind the white ones!
When the handcuffs finally went on Jackson during that ludicrous scene in Decatur, he pronounced, grandly, "It's an honor to be arrested in a righteous cause!"
Yes, Reverend, it is. Now go find one.