“Now, I get a little nervous every time I hear that Jesse Jackson is going to the scene of a crime,” he told members of his United African Movement a week before leading a Day of Protest in the oil company’s backyard. Maddox, the self-described Attorney at War, was poised to drop a bomb on Jackson. But Maddox and his ultra-black nationalist followers planned to picket Texaco - to “serve notice on all blacks there being held hostage that they do have support…” They had a far more ambitious agenda than the conciliators inside. Mason, as it turns out, couldn’t care less about attacking corporate racists. When Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton met with Texaco executives at the company’s headquarters in White Plains two weeks ago, two black activists were missing from the table: C. Spread of pages 40-41 of the December 3, 1996, issue of the Voice.
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