LASTPOET: If you are president of the Black Students, whom do you think people should turn to? A freshman? A Greek? You are the elected representative of the Black students. You sought the position to represent the black voice on campus voice. That is what you are there for. Just like the Dean of Students goes to the SGA, who represent the whole student body.
I never forgave Jesse or Clinton of anything. I was just saying that in spite of personal conduct, both have been good for the advancement of Blacks in this country. My being a Christian is immaterial to the good that they have done. Why must you try to impugn Christianity with every post? Its got nothing to do with this conversation.
True enough, Jesse never appointed himself as a leader, but he has put his life on the line for every one of us. The question is is that each of us is our own leader, being educated and upwardly mobile.
Despite LASTPOET once again equating Christianity with murder, genocide, etc, we as Black individuals and communities have the power to stop AIDS, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Illegitamcy, Murder, Black on Black Crime and much of our own poverty if WE CHOSE to live a moral and upright life. Martin, Malcolm, Jesse, and whomever is not responsible for that, nor is that dreaded Great Satan Amerikka (I hate that by the way).
As I have stated elsewhere, you can not compare AA with Jews who came to this country with wealth, skills, education, and sense of national history and self and Cubans who came here as one entire upper middle class community. That is apples and oranges. Why do we have to beat ourselves up all the time? The vast majority of Black folks I know are thriving or maybe its just the ones I know that stayed in school, didn't get pregnant, rob someone, sell drugs, or stand around talking about what the white man is doing to keep them down. These people did not need a leader to know to do the right thing.
Finally, each of us are leaders and role models. We do need leaders (yes, like Jesse, Al Sharpton, Tavis and Tom Joyner, Bill Cosby, and countless others) to fight those institutions of entrenched unfairness and slanted government policies, but are we not the Masters of our Fates and the Captains of our Souls or was that just empty rhetoric?
[This message has been edited by DoggyStyle82 (edited April 11, 2001).]
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