“America, let us expand. When Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev met there was a big meeting. They represented together one-eighth of the human race. Seven-eighths of the human race was locked out of that room. Most people in the world tonight—half are Asian, one-half of them are Chinese. There are 22 nations in the Middle East. There’s Europe; 40 million Latin Americans next door to us; the Caribbean; Africa—a half-billion people.” When Jesse Jackson uttered these words at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, he was presenting a foreign policy vision that linked back to various traditions—of Pan-Africanism Read more