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Florida reaction to Jackson news
By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published January 19, 2001
She also is the campaign chairwoman of the Pinellas County Democratic Executive Committee and is helping to organize a bus trip for a march in Tallahassee on Saturday. She heard about Jackson's announcement from "a very ugly man making slurs and comments against him on my voice mail. Instead of loading buses to Tallahassee, (he said) we need to load boats back to Africa.
"I still feel the same way about Rev. Jesse Jackson as I did two weeks ago. He has done and he is doing a lot of great things for a lot of people. Unfortunately, none of us are perfect."
"I don't think he's going to abandon his supporters and I'm one of them ever since he started Operation Breadbasket (in the 1960s). He may step back to a certain degree and perhaps he should," said Perkins T. Shelton, a longtime civil rights activist. But "people in the civil rights community are not going to roll over and play dead. Neither is Jesse Jackson."
Shelton said that in this day and age, babies being born out of wedlock is probably more common than people think. "If you go deep enough into everybody's life history, you'd find that this is quite prevalent in these times," he said.
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