Obama Plays Ball While Celebs Duck for Cover

Clock It with Symone & Eugene

MS NOW, Eugene Daniels, Symone Sanders Townsend

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🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Obama’s appearance at the All-Star Game, politics at the Olympics, and Jesse Jackson's reminder that we are “somebody.” Plus, Jemele Hill enters the chat.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. I am. I am. Somebody. Somebody. I am. I am. Somebody. I am. Somebody. I may be poor. I may be poor. But I am. I am somebody. Greetings, everyone. I'm Simone Sanders Townsend. And I'm Eugene Daniels. Welcome back to Clockett, where we open up our off-air conversations
0:24.2	and let you know what we see and hear in the news. We learned on Tuesday that the great
0:29.3	Reverend Jesse Jackson passed. Take a listen to the great Reverend Al Sharpton on Morning
0:35.0	Joe earlier that morning talking about him. Jesse Jackson helped change American politics. He changed civil rights. He kept Dr. King's dream going,
0:44.5	and we have to keep his going. He really understood culture and the attention economy before
0:51.2	anyone was using that term, which I think is one of the most interesting aspects of
0:55.8	him. He was this insurgent young person, even when he was in the civil rights movement. He was like
1:01.1	10, 12, 14 years younger than everybody else. And he had a different way of thinking about. And he kind
1:07.1	of changed the way that they were doing in the civil rights movement. You know, I mean, I think that's so right, Eugene.
1:12.0	To be very clear, you know, I came up as a young black woman political strategist.
1:15.7	And the women that paved their way for me were a group of women known as the colored girls.
1:20.5	The colored girls, they worked for Reverend Jesse Jackson, many of them.
1:24.3	They came up through the work of the Rainbow Coalition. They worked on his 88 campaign. When Jesse Jackson, many of them. They came up through the work of the Rainbow Coalition. They worked on
1:28.3	his 88 campaign. When Jesse Jackson, he guarded a substantial number of delegates in that
1:33.8	campaign. And because he won so many states and garnered so many delegates, he could make a lot of
1:39.1	decisions and affect the process. And the Democratic National Committee's process that we know about today
1:44.6	that sometimes folks disagree with right.
1:47.2	People got some issues with whatever.
1:49.8	Jesse Jackson is the reason
1:51.3	the proportional representation happens.
1:53.4	Jesse Jackson is the reason people know the names
1:55.4	of Leah Daughtry and Mignon Moore
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