The Most Rev. Jesse Jackson RIP.
He opened the front door of a venerated central Dublin establishment in December 2004 to let me into a talk he was about to give when the local jobsworth stewards had said there was no room at the inn for me.
Thank you for that Jesse.
I wanted to ask Jesse a question about whether he thought the recently elected senator Barack Obama of Illinois would be the first black president of the USA, but there were a lot of hands asking rubbish questions, time ran out, and now time has indeed run out.
You might have heard this speech before somewhere. Jesse Jackson is only one of two celebrities I ever saw in real life who are now dead. The other is Uaneen Fitzsimons. Uaneen liked to play these words on the radio.
The curse of Screamadelica goes on.
