The Legacy of Reverend Jesse Jackson feat. William Sweet | Angela Rye SoloPod
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Host Angela Rye walks us through the life and legacy of Reverend Jesse Jackson, who passed away surrounded by his family in Chicago today, February 17, 2026.
And we’ll be joined by former NFL player, William Sweet! William traces his arduous journey out of the NFL and into business, he runs a successful EV rental business that connects rideshare drivers with electric cars. Follow him @sweet904 on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Native Lambot is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:15.9 | Brothers and sisters, what time is it? |
| 0:22.6 | It's nation time. It's nation time for all of the tribes from Boston to Birmingham, |
| 0:27.6 | Mississippi to Minnesota, San Diego to Seattle and Galveston to Gary. |
| 0:33.6 | What time is it? |
| 0:35.6 | For 13 black congressman, one U.S. Senator, 81 black mayors, |
| 0:43.3 | 677 black school board members, |
| 0:47.3 | 873 black elected officials in 11 southern states, |
| 0:52.3 | 2,000 black elected and appointed officials and legislatures |
| 0:56.7 | and government. |
| 0:57.7 | What time is it? |
| 0:58.7 | For 7,500,000 registered black voters, 6 million unregistered black voters. |
| 1:10.3 | What time is it? |
| 1:11.6 | For black Democrats, black Republicans, black Panthers, black Muslims, black independence, |
| 1:20.6 | black laborers, black businessmen, black professionals, black mothers on welfare, what time is it? Black professionals. |
| 1:31.3 | Black mothers on welfare, what time is it? Black is our common denominator. |
| 1:35.3 | Brother Malcolm X said on more occasions than one, |
| 1:39.3 | we saw ourselves as house slaves, field slaves, and yard slaves. Only when we recognize that our common |
| 1:47.0 | denominator of slavery and that our numerator has been making a difference because we come together |
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