00:00Welcome back. U.S. long-time civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and two-time presidential candidate J.C. Jackson died
00:06Tuesday at the age of 84.
00:08Jackson led a lifetime of crusades in the United States and abroad, advocating for the poor and underrepresented on issues
00:16from voting rights and job opportunities to education and health care.
00:20He scored diplomatic victories with world leaders, and through his Rainbow Push coalition, he channeled cries for black pride and
00:27self-determination into corporate boardrooms,
00:29pressure and executive to make the U.S. a more open and equitable society.
00:33As a young organizer in Chicago, Jackson was called to meet with Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel
00:39in Memphis, Tennessee, shortly before King was killed,
00:42and he publicly positioned himself thereafter as King's successor.
00:51And civil rights activist, Al Sharpton, praised the role of Reverend Jackson in the development of the civil rights movement
00:56in the United States
00:57and warned that Jackson's legacy, as well as that of Martin Luther King Jr., were at risk as a result
01:02of the arbitrary deportations carried out by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
01:08On a broader level, Jesse Jackson changed American politics.
01:14Jesse Jackson changed the civil rights movement.
01:19He was a consequential and transformative figure.
01:23And he changed New York politics.
01:26Everything Dr. King and Reverend Jackson stood for is at risk right now.
01:31The Supreme Court is weighing right now, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Senate.
01:35Right now, we're seeing what's going on with ICE and deportation.
01:40So, we have the challenge not to mourn Jesse Jackson, but we need to use our mornings, which is what
01:47we're going to do Saturday, to say there must be a movement.
01:50He would not want us to have sanctimonious mornings if we weren't going to get up and do the work.
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