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Check out this gallery of black history events from the year 1988! It includes Jesse Jackson’s near victory in the Democratic National Convention and the indisputable victories of Black Olympians Carl Lewis, Florence Griffith-Joyner, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

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    negros of slave-descent (2nd class citizens without a nationality or history) are not allowed to be president

    Obama has a european(jewish) mother who is a 1st-class citizens and Kenyan father, so that dont apply to him.

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    Only thing landmark about ’88 in my mind was the dropping of “It takes a nation of millions to hold us back”

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