Hats off to Jesse Jackson

Dear Reverend Jackson:

It is out of character for me to rise at 4 a.m., as now, to compose a letter to a public figure and a stranger. But today you do not seem like a stranger. Something that you recently did, and which I just learned about, caused me to have a good cry last evening, when I badly needed one. I slept fitfully, feeling the writer’s restless urge to commit important thoughts to paper.