00:00So let me just say, I predicted a lot about what's happening right now.
00:11I'm not into saying I told you so, but we did see it coming.
00:19But what I did not predict is that we would not have Jesse Jackson with us right now to help
00:25us get through this.
00:32Reverend Jackson was impatient.
00:35He did not waste time waiting.
00:40Even when the doors in front of him were barred and bolted, even if those on the other side hesitated
00:49or even ignored him, he always devised a way through.
00:55Jesse Jackson was a strategist.
00:58He was one of the most effective community and political organizers of our time.
01:05And he was the founder, I think most would agree, the founder of the Modern Progressive Coalition.
01:18Reverend Jackson reminded us that the many fights for freedom are interconnected.
01:26He saw not only the interconnection, but the interdependence of the various struggles for justice and dignity on behalf of
01:36black Americans, native and Asian Americans, Latino, LGBTQ Americans, and Americans with disabilities.
01:43That was Jesse's rainbow, and he continued to grow it.
01:48So let me just say, I predicted a lot about what's happening right now.
02:00I'm not into saying I told you so, but we did see it coming.
02:08But what I did not predict is that we would not have Jesse Jackson with us right now to help
02:14us get through this.
02:21Reverend Jackson was impatient.
02:29Even when the doors in front of him were barred and bolted, even if those on the other side hesitated
02:38or even ignored him, he always devised a way through.
02:46He was one of the most effective community and political organizers of our time, and he was the founder, I
02:56think most would agree, the founder of the Modern Progressive Coalition.
03:07Reverend Jackson reminded us that the many fights for freedom are interconnected.
03:15He saw not only the interconnection, but the interdependence of the various struggles for justice and dignity on behalf of
03:24black Americans, native and Asian Americans, Latino, LGBTQ Americans, and Americans with disabilities.
03:32That was Jesse's rainbow, and he continued to grow it.
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