Whether Jackson's profile is high or low, the issues he addresses live on.
Leaders tend to appear out of the masses when they are needed most.
Leaders come in all colors, but black America certainly has no shortage of them these days. We have leaders today in walks of life where blacks could not even find employment opportunities a few short decades ago. Mostly, we talk about how to get George W. Bush and the press to pay attention to slavery and genocide in Sudan. But Jesse Jackson has come into the conversation. We African Americans have to get away from that.