Reconciling the histories of Andrew and Jesse Jackson - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

Reconciling the histories of Andrew and Jesse Jackson - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group

By Ben Jealous Guest Columnist The Democratic Party, the party of Andrew Jackson, has spent a decade running from him. It should keep the two things he got right. I was 14 the first time I raised my hand to volunteer. I was short for my age. I had a bad stutter. The campaign was Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaign in 1988. They made me a precinct captain anyway. Thirty years later, I was my state’s Democratic nominee for governor. So I have be…