Jesse Jackson: From civil rights to black capitalism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Read moreFifty years since the US Civil Rights Act11 April 201470 years since Brown v. Board of Education outlawed school segregation:
53% : "There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.
44% : " When his 1988 tax returns were made public, they revealed that Jackson had been "parlaying his services in defense of the capitalist system and the Democratic Party into a personal fortune," as The Bulletin, newspaper of the Workers League, reported at the time.
41% : But for all his rhetoric -- he called Carter's deregulation policy a "domestic neutron bomb" -- Jackson proved himself again and again to be the party's most reliable campaigner, delivering votes for Democratic presidential nominees, each one farther to the right than the last: Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Obama, Biden and Harris.
14% : After King's death, his successors -- with Jackson prominent among them -- moved further to the right, abandoning talk of systemic change and aligning with the affirmative action framework advanced under Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon to cultivate a privileged black professional layer by giving them a "piece of the action," as Nixon put it.

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