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Originally posted by TonyB06
Good points, Eclipse, (you're making me think) but I think you've hit on the dirty little secret. How much "authority" do the leaders or our so-called leading organizations really have today?
I think the days of a dominant titular leader (like MLK) are gone. While more culturally alike than not, the AA community may be too diverse at this point to follow or be led by the call of any one person, group or band of media-appointed "CNN leaders."
I think solutions now have to be bottom up --- "this is what we tried in my community and it worked, so you might try it in yours." The days of national directives, be it the NAACP, Urban League or others, are prolly over.
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Oh, don't get me wrong....I definately agree with you on the above points. I'm just saying that Jesse gets a lot more mike time that say....TonyB06
HE can put pressure on the Dr Dre's, P-Diddys of the world to make change. I do think folks like Tavis Smiley and Tom Joyner have a lot of sway in the black community. Look at some of the boycotts they have arranged just by speaking out on their radio show. But will they speak out against rappers and thier ilk
....I think not, that's where their bread is buttered.
During the Ludicris (or however the heck he spells it) controversy with Pepsi, a local DJ, Frank Ski, had listeners calling in with their thoughts. People were saying that the radio stations should not play that kind of music and he responded by saying they only play what we want to hear and if "we" didn't request it they would not play it. Now anyone who knows a little bit about radio knows that that is a bunch of bunk. Radio stations play what they are paid to play. Requests have a little to do with it, but typically after they have played something to death so now you like it enough to ask for it cause you can't get the dang-on song out of your head!
