Jesse Jackson: a Brief Biography Jesse Jackson was born on March eleventh, 1965 in Greensville, South Carolina. He has since run for president in two elections, one in 1984, and one in 1988. In the 1984 elections, he received over three million popular votes, and Registered over one million new voters. In 1988 he received over seven million Votes, and registered over two million new voters. He never got one electoral Vote. He sees himself as the leader of African-Americans, women, unionists, the Homeless, the unemployed, and the underemployed. He is offended that Bill Clinton has a large amount of minority supporters.

He has been known to get Overly excited and emotional when speaking, and sometimes offends people. In one Speech he said that the Christian Coalition is made up of «Nazis, slave owners, And segregationists.» Another time he publicly remarked, «In Germany, they call What's going on «fascism». In South Africa they call it «racism». Here in America we call it conservatism.» He even once called New York City, «Hyme-town.» Hearing that remark coming from a civil rights leader shocked everybody, and Cost him millions of votes. Another scandal came along when he led over five Hundered Stanford University students singing, «Hey hey, ho ho. Western civ has Got to go!» Jesse Jackson boycotted the Academy Awards last year, because only On African-American was nominated. However no less of an authority than Denzel Washington, says that Jesse Jackson overreacted. «I didn't really think that There were any Oscar worthy African-American performances,» said the actor in A recent interview. Jesse Jackson was standing next to Martin Luther King, when He was assassinated. Let's just hope that Jesse Jackson doesn't meet the same Fate.

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