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Jesse Jackson: “It is at least a factor. Today I saw 5,000 African Americans on the I-10 causeway desperate, perishing, dehydrated…”

On the recordSeptember 1, 2005
It is at least a factor. Today I saw 5,000 African Americans on the I-10 causeway desperate, perishing, dehydrated, babies dying. It looked like Africans in the hull of a slave ship.
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Jesse Jackson

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Reverend Jackson discusses the racial implications of the federal government's response to the disaster.

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