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Originally Posted by EE-BO
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.
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Well, having met Jesse Jackson in person a few times and a close friend of mine having gone to Howard with his son, the reality is everyone and he probably capitalized on the fact that when MLK was assassinated, he was right there with him and know all his intimate details of his "dream"... The reality is he doesn't, but he leveraged that throughout his pursuit of greater good.
He is a great motivator for young people. Kids who are unsure on themselves and what they can do. His leadership ability is absent. Which is different from Obama.
Obama is NOT part of "the establishment" or the Bourgie class. The AfAms you probably interact with are "MAYBE" a part of that... Nowadays, everything is all different from when I grew up, so I don't know, it depends.
I am part of the post-Civil Right's babies... Grew up during Affrimative Action
Days but still suffered under bigotry and racist attitudes by authoritative figures--like doctors, teachers and yes, sometimes police. The humiliation from those encounters are seared into my memory. But, I have worked to forgive people to. My hope and goal is to "judge someone by the content of his or her character".