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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet
The irony of the African American "power structure"--there is no structure...
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This is a fair point and gets to perhaps another common disconnect between racial groups.
Maybe it is the media's doing- but I and many others who are white get the sense that the CBC and a handful of leaders like Sharpton and Jackson frame the national discussion on African-American issues.
In real life and in person I know it does not work like that (I have yet to meet one African-American who I have known well enough to talk politics who had anything nice to say about Jesse Jackson), but there is definitely a sense that there is a leadership there which will make all judgement calls about how a person is to be treated based on their political orientation and not by some objective moral criteria- using the race card when in fact it is politics and not race that is in question.
But again, maybe the media is creating that to stir people up. I have to admit I do not know the answer.