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Meet Jerry Brown-- Leading Black Candidate for Oakland Mayor
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker May 05, 2004 02:52pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, December 9, 1997 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OAKLAND -- Heads turn as Jerry Brown enters Morning Star Baptist Church in West Oakland, California. He is a little late for the Sunday service and slips into a pew. Soon the praying stops and Brown takes the pulpit, and tells the black congregants why a man who served as governor of the state and three times ran for president now wants to be Oakland's next mayor.
The pastor's wife introduces Brown warmly, as someone who cares about "the poor, the downtrodden, the despised, the forgotten. He could live in Beverly Hills or Palm Springs, but he chose to live here in Oakland."
"I wouldn't live anyplace but Oakland," Brown tells the crowd. "This is a great city."
He gives a lackluster speech; he is recovering from the flu. But it is punctuated with "Amen!" and "No!" and "You tell it, Governor." In a collarless white shirt and stark blue jacket, Brown looks like a priest without a parish, exuding a lonely intensity, and the congregation rises, as if to warm his chill, for a standing ovation as he sits down.
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