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Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti- affirmative action -- they are sending messages more profound their language.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
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Greenville
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Jesse Louis Jackson
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