Word: jessee
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You think that to defend Reverend Jackson of any Black man that is standing up for justice for you is to put yourself in jeopardy with white people because white people don't like that, Jesse's on a mission. He may never make it to the White House, but...
Washington Post reporter Milton Coleman on his reporting that Rev. Jesse L. Jackson called Jews "Hymies," from The Boston Globe, April 15.
And, in the most significant display, the first black presidential candidate (or the first with a serious following), King's disciple, Jesse Jackson, sits side by side in debate with the two white Senators running for the Democratic nomination. Whatever errors he has made elsewhere in the campaign (stupid...
The journey of American blacks has been a series of epic passages: the "Middle Passage" from Africa . . . the long passage through slavery to the Emancipation Proclamation . . . the false dawn of Reconstruction. . . the terrorist Klan era with its night-riding death squads . . . the passage north to South Side Chicago and Detroit...
For years Jesse Jackson has stood in front of high school audiences and led them in psychological cheers: "I am . . . somebody!" The theme is not original with Jackson. Marcus Garvey, for example, thundered the idea: "Up, you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will!" That is a perfectly American...