MN, good question. poor context. There is no need to beat up Jesse or Clinton. Both of them have personal foibles as powerful men are prone to have. That is symptomatic of the problem that we have. I think that Sharpton would be a more respected leader if he laid off the hyperbole and the pimp hairdo. I was very impressed with him at the Tavis Smiley symposium.
We have to be careful of painting ourselves into a corner. We are a much more diverse and educated people than in the heydey of the civil rights movement. Technically, we don't need leaders like we had then. We need leadership that will counteract the negativity of current Black popular culture. That is more genocidal than anything we face from "The Man" or federal government.
Martin, Malcolm, and others were focused on fighting systemic, institutional, racism and its kin. Now, our most pressing needs deal with behavior modification and moral decay. You can't fight the government for that or make corporate America give it to you. Leaders for that battle must come from the "village".
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