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Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.

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Jesse Jackson
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 8
Activist
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Greenville
South Carolina
Jesse Jackson
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Jesse Louis Jackson
Sr.
Jesse Louis Jackson
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