Jesse Jackson '88: Twenty Years Later, Hope Lives On
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Uploaded by videonation on Jan 14, 2009
Campaigning as an unapologetic progressive, the Rev. Jesse Jackson reframed, renewed and refashioned US politics with a pair of campaigns for the Democratic presidential nominations of 1984 and 1988.
Those campaigns broke new ground in American politics, showing that it was possible to leap lines of race, gender, sexuality and class to form coalitions that had not previously been imagined possible. Jackson's presidential runs also brought hundreds of thousands of new voters--especially young and African American voters--onto the rolls. The legacy of those campaigns, and those coalitions, formed the basis for a new politics that helped elect Barack Obama America's first black president.
This video tells that story. As we celebrate our progress, it is vital to recall the campaigns that brought us to this place.
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@mpsirlu
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He has the passion, but it is a little scary!
gundamWWW 9 months ago
Jesse Jackson Calls for 'Radical Reordering' of American Economy is a socialist, like Hilter. watch?v=E_vCLQnebX0
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Jesse Jackson should start by giving up his $10 million (from celebrity net worth com) before asking others to give up there money. President Obama who also wants to spread the wealth has $5 million. watch?v=Sj4yIE9Dd90 & watch?v=PUvwKVvp3-o
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Allen West 2012
Mummificationify 1 year ago
Jesse Jackson lost the presidential election because he promised blacks work. That was his biggest mistake.
beerborn 1 year ago
No, its not going to happen. Fuck a Communist Country
BranIL28 1 year ago
Amazing this video has 2000 veiws and Lady gagas crappy songs get over 11 million veiws in 6 days
TryNRun 2 years ago
he is such a great man !!
mpsirlu 2 years ago
Jesse Jackson was on a roll, but then he called Jews "Hymies" and called New York, "Hymietown". And that was a wrap for him.
daddycincinnati 2 years ago
coon don't know what he is talking about
konroy21 2 years ago
This definitely got the ball rolling for Black candidates. I just think his campaign was too "Pro black". He needed a world view. Bringing EVERYONE together should have been the focus. He did come up with Martin Luther King after all.
mightymojnir 3 years ago 2
I have a new respect for Jesse Jackson. Although I dislike the whole "black power" rhetoric, those times in 1988, Jesse had a message for all.
shaley1812 3 years ago