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  • Jesse Jackson: Hollywood Needs 'Diversity'

    02/22/2007 2:07:17 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 73 replies · 1,456+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | Feb. 22, 2007 | Reprinted from NewsMax.com
    Jesse Jackson: Hollywood Needs 'Diversity' Newsmax.com Feb. 22, 2007 As seemingly half of Hollywood converged on a fundraiser for Democratic presidential aspirant Sen. Barack Obama, the Rev. Jesse Jackson was huddled elsewhere with Universal Studios president Ron Meyer over his own campaign - to increase industry diversity. "We must go to each of the companies and agencies and urge them to make the industry open up and expand the market and the opportunities," Jackson said Wednesday during an hour-plus interview with The Hollywood Reporter. "After all, we once did not know how big baseball could be until everyone could play....
  • Jesse Jackson says Saddam shouldn't be executed

    12/29/2006 11:35:43 AM PST · by shrinkermd · 107 replies · 3,700+ views
    News 3 Memphis ^ | 29 December 2006 | Staff
    CHICAGO The Reverend Jesse Jackson says U-S forces should not turn Saddam Hussein over to the Iraqi government for execution. Jackson says that to allow the former Iraqi leader to be hanged as what he calls "a war trophy" would be a "barbarity" that would only inflame tensions. Jackson says making Saddam spend the rest of his life in prison would be a better way to "break the cycle of violence in Iraq."