Good Topic!
Unfortunatly in today's society the media overall has begun to define what our leadership is instead of us deciding. Most leaders are built through grass roots movment. Today there is such a lack of strong grassroot movement that the national figures tend to stick to high level issues. Take for example boycotts. Effective boycotts take place at the Grassroots level on a day to day basis. It is one thing for a Black Leader to come to a city for a couple of days, speak on the issue and bounce. They fail to create a grassroot community organization that will hold on to that protest or ideal. Many of these organizations should be in churches but the apathy of the church adds to the problem. The movie entitled "Racism 101" address these issues at length showing social protest on college campuses. When I was in college(people I am still under 25
) students of socail ideals made sure they were a pain in adminstrations butt but at the same time did not lose focus on the day to day agenda. Now we don't use those skills on a daily basis. What are the 9 organizations going to do about what is going on in Cincinatti? Probably say it is wrong but that is it. "As long as there are the oppressed and down troden there will always be a need for ALpha Phi Alpha" is what one of my founders said but I think that it applies to all of us. Let us start using our organization knowledge to build grassroot community leaders and from there move on the front to improve education day to day, teach our young responsible sexuality, support single parents and create voter registration that not only gets people registered but educates the now registred voters of the state of their county, state, national officers and let them decide what the important issues are to them. Many thanks for MN for putting this up.
Peace
Sphinxpoet