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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

Jesse Jackson

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
Civil Rights Advocate
Human Rights Activist
Pastor
Politician
Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Unemployed
Blacks
Lazy
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Whites

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If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
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