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Speaker 1: The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Reverend

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Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior and presidential candidate who led the

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Speaker 1: civil rights movement for decades. After the Reverend King was assassinated,

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Speaker 1: Reverend Jackson died. He was eighty four years old. His daughter,

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Speaker 1: Santina Jackson, confirmed that her father died at home. He

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Speaker 1: was surrounded by family. As a young organizer in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: Reverend Jackson was called to meet with King at the

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Speaker 1: Lorraine Hotel in Memphis shortly before King was killed, and

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Speaker 1: he publicly positioned himself thereafter as King's successor. Reverend Jackson

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Speaker 1: led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad.

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Speaker 1: He advocated for the poor and underrepresented on issues from

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Speaker 1: voting rights and job opportunities to education and health care.

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Speaker 1: He scored diplomatic victories with world leaders, and through his

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Speaker 1: Rainbow Push coalition, he channeled cries for black pride and

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Speaker 1: self determination into corporate boardrooms. Remember I am so, I

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Speaker 1: am somebody he was so famous for. Yeah. He pressured

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Speaker 1: executives to make America a more open and equitable society.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Now, let me tell you something, man,

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Speaker 2: Jesse Jackson in his prime, and Jesse Jackson at the

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Speaker 2: top of his game was so so very affective. Oh, yes,

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Speaker 2: that's for the movement, Yes, Jesse Jackson. Man was fearless

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Speaker 2: and at the forefront of so many initiatives that we

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Speaker 2: are benefiting from. Right now. I watched this man up

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Speaker 2: close do some incredible things. Now, you know, we live

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Speaker 2: in a time now where people always want to find

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Speaker 2: criticism and you can't and you can find criticism with

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Speaker 2: anybody if you look close enough. So gonna do your

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Speaker 2: part whatever, all the haters and trollers, gonna do what

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Speaker 2: you're gonna do. But if you want to say that

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Speaker 2: the man's life counted for something, I want her to

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Speaker 2: present with you, because that man right there put it in.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you something right now. Man, the

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Speaker 2: speech he gave at the eighty four Democratic Convention. Had

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Speaker 2: he gave that speech during the campaign, that man could

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Speaker 2: have been president.

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Speaker 1: Back then.

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Speaker 2: He was that effective of a human being. Man, Jesse

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Speaker 2: Jackson gave the greatest speech ever at a political convention

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Speaker 2: I've ever heard. And had he given that during the campaign,

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Speaker 2: that man could have been president. Now it was a

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Speaker 2: little early for him to be president. But he was

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Speaker 2: ahead of his team. I remember as a kid watching

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Speaker 2: him go get hostages.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: I was blown away. Man, that's what he did. That

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Speaker 2: dude was different man, and people respected him world wide

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Speaker 2: world Watch.

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Speaker 1: That's true for voters' rights and voter registration and all

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Speaker 1: of that. I mean, just I grew up in Chicago

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Speaker 1: where Rainbow Push was so yeah, yep, you're right, the

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Speaker 1: same thing. He will definitely be missed, his impact. All right, guys,

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