February 17, 2026
Jesse Jackson Has Passed:
Jesse Jackson was a tremendously gifted and influential civil rights leader.
While I certainly had issues with some of his views and actions in later years, he was a tremendously powerful and generally positive influence on the nation on the 1970's and early '80s.
Today I happened across a quote from the late P.J. O’Rourke on Jackson's astounding oratory skills:
He is the only living American politician with a mastery of classical rhetoric. Assonance, alliteration, litotes, pleonasm, parallelism, exclamation, climax and epigram — to listen to Jesse Jackson is to hear everything mankind has learned about public speaking since Demosthenes. Thus Jackson, the advocate for people who believe themselves to be excluded from Western culture, was the only 1988 presidential candidate to exhibit any of it.
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