After Newtown: Will We Finally Act?

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This is a repost of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s column for Chicago Sun-Times (Dec. 17, 2012).  It is reposted here with permission.

Do not turn your eyes from the horror of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn. Twenty children, their teachers and aides, their school principal shot repeatedly, in some cases beyond recognition, by a 20-year-old wielding a semiautomatic assault weapon.

As he has shown in his moving words after the horror, President Barack Obama clearly is grief-stricken, as we all should be, about the children murdered in their innocence.

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Obama has Worked for All Americans

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This is a repost of Rev. Jackson’s column in Chicago Sun- Times (Oct. 29, 2012).  I am reposting it here with permission.

By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Weekly Commentary | Chicago Sun-Times

When former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president, Romney campaign chair John Sununu dismissed it as just a black man standing up for one of his tribe.