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The Fifth Column

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Jesse Jackson's Best Political Apology of the 20th Century

The apology is on wax. It's a remarkable speech. We all sort of forget it. He got in a lot of trouble with my people, the Jewish community for saying that New York City was high in me town. I'm in the room. Am I too? I'm at town. And anyway, so he, there's two parts of this that are really interesting. One is that after months where like Jesse Jackson was finally not apologizing., Abe Foxman worked on him and befriended him. And over time, really got him to sort of understand that this is very offensive to Jewish people. And that's where we got, and it kind of culminated in this incredible oration

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