January 10, 2002 - National Review: Gus Savage called Peace Corps Volunteer he harassed “a traitor to the black movement.”

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Gus Savage called Peace Corps Volunteer he harassed “a traitor to the black movement.”



Gus Savage called Peace Corps Volunteer he harassed “a traitor to the black movement.”

“The movement,” the Friend of Bob, Larry Summers blows it, &c.

January 10, 2002 9:30 a.m.


The other day, “the Rev.” Al Sharpton opened his West Coast office, and who should attend the party but Karin Stanford. Who is that woman with the funny “i,” you ask? That’s Jesse Jackson’s mistress, the one with whom he had a child. (He lied about it for a while, then was forced by both the media and Stanford to fess up.) Stanford is on the outs with Jackson now, and so is the Rev. Al — which is why Sharpton and Karin happened to be at the same party (a major dis to Jackson).

Something Stanford said caught my ear. A reporter asked her why she had kept quiet for so long about her child with Jackson. “I didn’t want to do anything to hurt him or the movement,” she said.

Those words, “the movement,” brought me up short. I had a flashback to Rep. Gus Savage (D., Ill.). You perhaps remember him: He was one of the great black haters — and one of the great haters, period — in Congress. On a visit to Zaire, he sicced himself on a U.S. Peace Corps worker, a young woman (black) who was supposed to drive him around and such. After all, he was a congressman on an official visit.

She refused his advances. He said to her — this is unforgettable — “Oh, come on, baby, when you help the shepherd, you help the whole flock.” That meant: “Do your black duty and give in to me.” He also said that she’d be helping “the movement”: Don’t think of it as submitting to me, this vile, exploitative politician; think of it as helping all the people in Watts and the Delta and Bed-Stuy.

Later, when the young lady “told,” Savage called her “a traitor to the black movement.”

When you hear those words “the movement” — and I speak to women in particular — reach for your gun, or at least call the cops. There is no movement, folks, at least none of a positive kind anymore (unless you’re talking about Ward Connerly’s or the movement for educational reform and genuine black uplift); but there are awful men doing anything handy or intimidating to take advantage of women.

Oh, I should include a P.S. here: Savage was eventually defeated in a Democratic primary by Mel Reynolds. Not too long after, Rep. Reynolds was arrested for preying on underaged girls. That Chicago district, unbelievably, hadn’t traded up.



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