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Walsh: Jackson Wants To Keep Blacks 'Down On Some Plantation'

By elise@huffingtonpost.com(Elise Foley) Jun 01st 2012 - 03:09PM

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) isn't backing down from controversial comments he made last week about Rev. Jesse Jackson -- instead, he's ramping them up.

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Jesse Jackson: Attacks On Jeremiah Wright 'A Source Of Pain'

By gene.demby@huffingtonpost.com(Gene Demby) May 21st 2012 - 05:13PM

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said that recent attacks on Rev. Jeremiah Wright , the former pastor of President Obama's Chicago church, have been a personal "source of pain" for him.

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Background on jesse jackson

Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister.

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