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Changing of the guard in black leadership?

Outside the South Beach Cafe in Harlem, a mural emblazoned "Great African Americans" features the Rev. Jesse Jackson alongside Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass and other groundbreakers.

Inside the neighborhood eatery, however, a hostess readily slams Jackson for accusing Barack Obama of "talking down to black people" and expressing his desire to castrate the presidential nominee.

"It...

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