With the news that the Rev. Jesse Jackson is retiring or, as he prefers to call it, “pivoting” from the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition that he has led for more than a half-century, an old question comes to mind: Who will be the next Black Moses?
Mahalia Jackson, left, sings"We Shall Overcome" with civil rights leaders the Rev. Martin Luther King, third left, Jesse Jackson, second from right, and Albert Raby, right, on Aug. 4, 1966. The event happened at 844 W. 71st St. in Chicago.
Looking back, I imagine questions like that have troubled Jackson, too, especially in moments like the one during a live broadcast of NBC’s “Meet the Press” when a light bulb exploded with a loud bang, causing Jackson to visibly wince. I’m sure I wasn’t the only viewer to think in that instance: Oh, no, not again.
“I am ...!” he shouted into the microphone, beginning his signature chant, which the crowd repeated, “... somebody!” Gossip that portrayed Jackson as “Dr. King’s protege” or “hand-picked successor” turned out to be largely exaggerated or wishful thinking. But he made the most of what he had, which was a talent for transforming conventional politics and current affairs into an agenda for political action, all of it delivered in sound bites ready-made for TV reporters and editors to put on the air.
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