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Article: Al, Jesse And Barack.(Race)(Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama )
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- Newsweek
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- April 14, 2008
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Byline: Joshua Alston
Barack Obama is asking us to talk through our racial problems. But what if that actually works?
In his 1963 book "Strength to Love," Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." When King was assassinated in Memphis 40 years ago, the progress he had made gave way to a concern: Who would fill his shoes? Who would speak for black America? Few leaders, African-American or otherwise, have been able to enact social change on the scale King did. But the void left by King was eventually shared by the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Jackson was ...