Don Lemon Asks Jesse Jackson ‘What’s Changed’ Since Peaceful MLK Marches

CNN’s Don Lemon — who in the last thirteen hours has smelled marijuana, been tear gassed, and clashed on-air with his cohost — asked Reverend Jesse Jackson Tuesday morning “what’s changed” since the days of peaceful civil rights marches led by Martin Luther King, Jr., causing Jackson to remind Lemon that Ferguson wasn’t exactly America’s first riot.

“Part of your legacy is that you marched with Dr. King peacefully, in non-violent protests,” Lemon said. “Most of those protests were during the day, and even in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, as James Baldwin says, even in the midst of the most obstinate opposition, still you and Dr. King remained peaceful. What has changed in our culture and our society that people resort to things that played out here last night in Ferguson?”

“You do know that when Dr. King was alive we had the Watts riots and the Newark riots and the Detroit riots and Chicago?” Jackson replied. “And there was a comprehensive study done that determined a body of pain and fuel of poverty, precipitated by police action, triggered those riots?”

Watch the clip below, via CNN:

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