According to the World Socialist Website “Reverend Jesse Jackson, was a “consummate political opportunist, who more than any other individual… embodied the transformation of the civil rights movement -“
“its conversion from a mass working class movement against racial oppression into an “interest group” in the Democratic Party and a tool for the social advancement of a narrow stratum of the black upper middle class…” such as the Black Caucus. He was never a socialist though he managed to grandstand at Hugo Chavez’s funeral.
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