Jessie Jackson has died.

[Nathan45]

Jessie Jackson has passed away.

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/17/96312445 ... ition-dies

Definitely a huge figure in the civil.rights movement, for better or worse.

[kdahm]

In the 60's and 70's, he was needed as a decent counterbalance to the more radical side of the movement.

He peaked by the 80's.
Coasted in the 90's

And in the 2000's, specialized in dashing in, taking publicity and money from the latest outrage, and disappearing to the next one before anything got done. Nowhere near as bad as his buddy Al Sharpton, but still more of a parasite than a leader.

The big question is if he could have won the nomination in 1992 over Clinton, and how he would have fared against Bush the Elder.

[jemhouston]

I suspect Jackson would have received the same treatment Obama did when he ran. All fawning coverage and no push back. Fox News didn't start until 1996, Limbaugh started in 1988, but that would have been the only national conservative voice heard nationally.