Wasn’t til late tonight—it’s 4 a.m. in California—I remembered, Jesse Jackson was there when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Among many other things.

I don’t expect he ever thought to see what happened tonight.

Birmingham, Alabama, 1963:
And forty-odd years later, but an eye-blink in history …

Hell, makes me cry too, Makes a lot of us weep. As well it might.

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“It was painful to talk with the students,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said after meeting with students and parents. “They feel there are targets on their back because they are black, because they are involved in interracial dating relationships.”

However, university president Gregory Waybright stressed Friday there was no mention of interracial dating in the letters.

Jesse: Loved the pix on Yahoo news. The lit-from-below thing? Really works.