Word: america
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...Never mind the delegate count," Gates wrote in The New Yorker, "in 1988, Jesse Jackson was elected President of black America...
...Jackson, who was deeply aware of the importance of spirituality in black leadership at the time, this was a sort of gruesome baptism, anointing him to take King's place as the preeminent leader of black America...
Frady claims that if it weren't for Jackson's registration of over three million voters, most of them black, America might have elected a very different brand of leader in the 1980s...
...most important aspect of Jackson's campaigns may be the precedent he has set. Jackson forced America to consider the possibility of electing a black man to the highest office in the country...
West's most recent books, including thebest-selling Race Matters (1993), Jewsand Blacks: Let the Healing Begin (1995),written with Michael Lerner, and The WarAgainst Parents: What We Can Do for America'sBeleaguered Moms and Dads (1998), co-authoredwith Sylvia Ann Hewlett, all focus on currentthemes designed to appeal to a mass audience...