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  • Jesse Jackson Calls For Changing Superdome Name To “Amistadium”

    09/06/2005 5:41:23 PM PDT · by The Therapist · 26 replies · 1,661+ views
    The Therapist ^ | 9-6-05 | rg
    Freuters—The Rev. Jesse Jackson, seemingly on a roll with an endless array of slave-era euphemisms to describe the plight of African Americans in the wake of hurricane Katrina, has called for authorities to rename the New Orleans Superdome. . “When I see the those walls, I see the hull of a slave ship,” said Jackson. “When I see those advertising banners and championship pennants surrounding the perimeter, I see a circumspect black man sitting in the crow’s nest. When I see the putrid, scurvy, urine-soaked squalor inside that stadium