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DJ keeps hand on campus' pulse
By Mark McHugh Kansan staff writer
Radio show provokes listener responses
Jesse Jackson picked up the telephone receiver Saturday night after saying he wished that phone calls would stop coming into the station.
After listening to the caller for about 10 seconds, he smiled. He was used to getting many calls, but they usually weren't for requests.
"I catch flak more than I care to remember for being named Jesse Jackson," he said. "People always tell me, 'Oh, I voted for you in '84,' or they ask me about my political point on an issue because of that."
"Sure. I can play it," Jackson said. This is not Jesse Jackson, the Rainbow Coalition leader who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, but Jesse Jackson, the KU student, who was named after his grandfather.
KU's Jackson also is known as the "DJ Sir Light" on student station JIKH's Saturday night radio program, "The Black Music Show." He provides an open form that allows the audience to talk to guests.
two weeks ago he received a flood of phone calls at the station. But they were not requests. The phone calls were in response to a sextist joke told by one of his guests.
The phone rang for the next hour with calls from irate women listeners. Jackson said.
His two guests said that they were anti-racist skinheads.
Jackson said anti-racist skinbeads were those that opposed Nazi skinbadeas because they believed the Nazi movements was anti-American.
"That was one of the most controversial shows I've had yet," Jackson said.
The guests responded to questions from Jackson and listeners. One of the guests, Gary Goff, an anti-racist skinhead from Newark, N.J., said that the guests went on the show to discuss the differences between anti-racist skinheads and Nazi skinheads as well as racism in general.
In another interview, Goff said that he liked being on the program because Jackson interviewed the guests thoroughly enough to enable listeners to understand more about skinheads and their beliefs.
"I thought he set up the show well," he said. "People think about skinheads, and they only want to hear the bad parts. Jesse had a good format about what we anti-racists thought, and what we believe in. He wanted people to call in and ask questions so they could be more
informed. I want to work with him more."
Jackson, 28, does not mind the publicity he has had as a radio personality, but he said that he would like more privacy.
"I'm always around people who want to talk to me but don't communicate with me as Jesse, a person who just wants to hang out and have a beer and just be a person," Jackson said. "I don't get treated like that often."
have done it.
Jackson has lived in Lawrence
periodically for the past four years,
after bouncing back and forth
between Kansas, Denver, Seattle
and New York City.
here in Lawrence, I am known as that 'black dude from JK', or 'that weird DJ', or whatever. That is a label that goes before me." Jacqueline said of the coin, I would just like to be known as a person."
Jackson lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment on Louisiana Street.
“It’s not that I’m not cordial,” he said, referring to living alone. “I just need it for my psyche.”
Jackson has found refuge in moving from place to place. He said that he did not feel like he had to settle with the lawyers and did all the securities that a job provided.
Jackson said that because there were so few Black men in the media, particularly in Lawrence, he wanted to remain in the field and help raise the consciousness of people in the community.
"That is why at 28, an age at which a lot of people burn out, I'm in Lawrence and I continue to do what I do." he said.
figures.
Jackson talked about the March 30 incident at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Ann Dean, St. Louis sophomore, was struck and racially insulted at the fraternity house by a member while she was delivering pizzas, according to police reports.
He said one reason racial tensions had arisen on campus and throughout the world was that some people were neglecting others' human rights.
Jesse Jackson, alias "DJ Sir Light."
"This issue is not one of sexism, race or class," Jackson said. "But the basic issue is human rights."
Skilled interviewer
In Jackson's sparsely furnished living room, there is a piece of graffiti that reads "Nemotion."
glarmo that read
The artist, a friend of Jackson's
named Nemo, sent it to him.
Daniel Starting/KANSAN
"I in my humble opinion, he's a new Warhol," he said. "His philosophy of life, which is one I agree with, that you should take what happened, assimilate it, and move forward."
"Jesse is the kind of person we like to do interviews with," he said. "Not only is he concerned with music but with attitudes and feelings. He seems to have his hand on the pulse of the University community."
Mike Ulin, operations manager for KJHK, has known Jackson professionally for more than a year.
"He's a socially conscious person," Swidler said. "He just seems to know
Scott Swilder, a disc jockey at JHK, said that Jackson was the best interviewer on the staff and that its show was probably listened to more than any other. Swilder said Jackson is a good interviewer because he kept up with issues both on and off campus.
what to ask, and his interviewing has gotten progressively better."
He said that Jackson had some of the most interesting guests on his show. Jackson's guest list has included members of Black Men of Today, Greempeace representatives and Tarot card readers.
Jackson said he felt that he must keep on learning through human interaction and that conducting his program allowed him to do so.
Jackson, who is three semesters away from earning degrees in cultural anthropology and political science, said he thought he had learned more than any student who had just attended class for four years and walked away with a diploma.
"Success to me is to be able to affect society in a certain way," Jackson said.
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