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Jesse Jackson... 1988 DNC. (Original Post)
Smarmie Doofus
May 2012
OP
Thanks for posting. I voted for him. 1988 opened my eyes about 'liberal media.'
freshwest
May 2012
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Thanks for posting. I voted for him. 1988 opened my eyes about 'liberal media.'
They were anything but. I saw him do the rounds with the popular television pundits and never seen anyone treated so dismissively. It was a learning experience. Then Bush, Sr. got in office to continue Reaganomics.
Here is the campaign ad for him in the primary. I have never been able to understand why he was so vilified by the right and dismissed by the left. He was exactly what was needed:
BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)2. I still have this on video tape
Voted for him in '84 & '88.
We've come a long way baby!
bigtree
(86,005 posts)3. contrast and appreciate that with this
National Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. -- March 10, 1972
FOR three days beginning March 10, 1972, the Steel City (Gary, Ind.) hosted the National Black Political Convention. Some say this independent meeting forged a path forward for African-American politics, one that remains open to this day.
The National Black Political Convention attracted approximately 8,000 people from across the United States. Their mission was to establish a unified political agenda that would address poverty, unemployment and blacks lack of clout within the Republican and Democratic parties.
For the first time ever, really, in a political sense, this was a really major, somewhat unorthodox, political convention. People there from all over the country and the Caribbean. And even without Internet, Facebook and high technology, people came, Jesse Jackson said (in a one-on-one interview with WBEZ) . Getting the right to vote in 65 was the beginning of a process, but the convention in Gary solidified the sense of focus. This convention was overwhelming. It could not be turned around . . .
We are grown. We aint taking it no more. No more yes boss. No more bowing or scrapping. We are 25 million strong. Cut us in or cut it out. It is a new ball game, Jackson said in a passionate speech at the convention, as depicted on the PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize.
http://www.wbez.org/story/garys-national-black-political-convention-40-years-97111
FOR three days beginning March 10, 1972, the Steel City (Gary, Ind.) hosted the National Black Political Convention. Some say this independent meeting forged a path forward for African-American politics, one that remains open to this day.
The National Black Political Convention attracted approximately 8,000 people from across the United States. Their mission was to establish a unified political agenda that would address poverty, unemployment and blacks lack of clout within the Republican and Democratic parties.
For the first time ever, really, in a political sense, this was a really major, somewhat unorthodox, political convention. People there from all over the country and the Caribbean. And even without Internet, Facebook and high technology, people came, Jesse Jackson said (in a one-on-one interview with WBEZ) . Getting the right to vote in 65 was the beginning of a process, but the convention in Gary solidified the sense of focus. This convention was overwhelming. It could not be turned around . . .
We are grown. We aint taking it no more. No more yes boss. No more bowing or scrapping. We are 25 million strong. Cut us in or cut it out. It is a new ball game, Jackson said in a passionate speech at the convention, as depicted on the PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize.
http://www.wbez.org/story/garys-national-black-political-convention-40-years-97111