Jesse Jackson's Gay Staffer Not Backing Down On Sexual Harassment Charges

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jesse jackson sexual harassment
jesse jackson sexual harassment

America is like a quilt, he famously said, where many patches -- the white, the Hispanic and the gay, among the rest -- are woven and held together by a common thread. When Jesse Jackson alluded to the quilt metaphor during his address to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, he probably didn't expect 27 years later to be taken to court over sexual harassment charges filed against him by one of his gay staffers.

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