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There once was a time when the Rev. Jesse Jackson intervened in instances of genuine injustice

I wouldn't give Jackson that much credit. He's always been a race pimp and a hustler, moving more recently to corporate extortion.

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I saw him hanging around the OTC (Offshore Tech. Conferece) exhibits in Houston a few years ago and wondered out loud "what the hell is JJ doing here?". A friend of mine pointed out the obvious...since the oil biz. transacts hundreds of millions of $$$ every year, there HAS to be some loot for JJ to mine, somewhere, somehow.