Barack Obama on Rev. Jesse Jackson: ‘He Was a Born Leader’

OBAMA: “It is an honor to join you today to celebrate the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson. A man who, when the poor and the dispossessed needed a champion and a country needed healing, stepped forward again and again and again, and said, send me. Reverend Jackson’s immense gifts were apparent at an early age, even if his circumstances conspired to try to hold him back. Born out of wedlock to a teenage mom, growing up under the oppressive cloud of segregation, confined to schools, sports facilities, movie theaters that were separate and unequal. It was a world where, on Thanksgiving, he’D have to wait for his mother to come home on the bus carrying leftovers from the dinner she had to cook for somebody else. A world designed to tell a child that he or she could only go so far.”

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Barack Obama on Rev. Jesse Jackson: ‘He Was a Born Leader’‘It is an honor to join you today to celebrate the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson’News & PoliticsEXCERPT:OBAMA: “It is an honor to join you today to celebrate the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson. A man who, when the poor and the dispossessed needed a champion and a country needed healing, stepped forward again and again and again, and said, send me. Reverend Jackson’s immense gifts were apparent at an early age, even if his circumstances conspired to try to hold him back. Born out of wedlock to a teenage mom, growing up under the oppressive cloud of segregation, confined to schools, sports facilities, movie theaters that were separate and unequal. It was a world where, on Thanksgiving, he’D have to wait for his mother to come home on the bus carrying leftovers from the dinner she had to cook for somebody else. A world designed to tell a child that he or she could only go so far.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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