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Originally posted by msn4med1975
Being Black and in office does NOT make you a Black leader. Condi and Colin do not SPEAK for most African Americans. They represent themselves as individuals who HAPPEN to be Black. And I'm sorry apointing people to office doesn't necessarily make you a champion of any minority group. Picking the most qualified individual who happened to be a minority just makes good sense. This is not an attack on Reagan or anyone else it's just reality in the sense that at the moment there are no prominent Blacks that I would identify as LEADERS. I also would like to add that while I feel his family's pain all of the nation is not in mourning. There are large segments of the country that are just trying to survive right now and while they regret the passing of an indvidual they aren't thinking of ways to pay tribute to Reagan.
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So, if you wouldn't mind.. please do tell.. who would you call "black leaders"?
I don't know. For anyone to proclaim them as a "leader" of people of their race is a little presumptuous. Perhaps calling them a purveyor and spokesperson for a certain group of people with a certain point of view -- or even a "leader" of a certain movement (because to be part of the movement implies acceptance of the movement's goals). But it just doesn't sit right with me to have someone called a white, black or purple leader.
I don't think President Reagan was ever referred to as a "white" leader.