The Press: Getting to the Core
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Surface Consequences. Many of the letters he received took Wicker to task for not showing enough concern over the death of the three white guards killed in the escape attempt. His column last week offered a reply to one letter-writer: "To grieve for the guards . . . but not to face the truth of what our society does to human beings like George Jackson is to worry about symptoms and surface consequences and not about root causes. So I must tell you that, no, I cannot be more 'even-handed,' as you would wish. I will go on, as long as I can, trying to get to the core of things the best I can."
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