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Ron,

I think the “Jesse Jackson of dinosaurs” thing was a hamhanded attempt at making a little funny about the shifts in acceptable language for describing American black people (“colored,” “Negro,” “Afro-American,” “African-American,” etc.). For some reason this seems to be an endless fount of humor for certain white folks. And Steve Sailer was born with a rare genetic disorder that makes it impossible for him to discuss anything having to do with anti-discrimination activism without throwing out Jesse Jackson’s name, higgeldy-piggeldy, regardless of whether or not Jesse Jackson had much of anything personally to do with the issue he’s talking about, or whether he had even been born when some of the events took place.