In 1993, Jesse Jackson, an African-American civil rights advocate in the U.S., made this statement, “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2000-06-20 .htm
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