Is it time for new leadership?
Is it time for new leadership in the Black Community? The reason I ask this is because after looking at a program where they had Cornell West speaking about his new book, it brings to light some of the things that I have been feeling the past few years about our leadership.
To me, I much prefer to listen to intellectuals like Mr. West, Nai'm Akbar, Louis Farakhan, and politicians like Ford from Tennessee, and Jesse Jackson Jr from Chicago. This is no way a slap at what our leaders have done for us in the past. We are were we are because of people like Jesse, but sometimes I believe that for Jesse it becomes more about Jesse, and less about the people. I think that sometimes he is a bit of an egomaniac, and I don't think that Al Sharpton has what it takes to be a national leader. He wants Jesse's job, but when he makes statements comparing that fiasco in Florida where we were denied our constitutional right to vote, to the killing of 6 million Jews, I think he goes over the top a bit.
I guess I see the future of Black America resting on the shoulders of men and women who get out and work within the communities everyday. As Dr. West was saying the real heros are the ones who's names you will never know. The AKAtudes and the Professors and the Nupe4Lifes and the Zeta Aces and the MNs that do the work in their community. To me Jesse is to worried about making sure that his friends and family get rich, and making sure that his baby mama get paid.
I also think that our leadership is not open to dissenting voices within our community. If you go against what the leadership says, then you are in some way not black enough and things of that nature. I for one will not get on this love Bill Clinton ban wagon. While most of us did benefit from him being president, and if he could run again, I would vote for him. But as far as honesty and integrity go, to me he has none. He is just as corrupt as the next politician. My thing is, your claim to fame cannot be that well everyone else does it too. That doesn't make it right!
Sure folks hated him, and some of the charges and things that he was accused of were trumped up, but damn, every time he is accused of something, black folks got to be on tv defending him. Even his white counterparts in the Democratic party stopped defending his azz. We need to get off his d&^8!
I am sorta tired of black folks being the political whore of the Democratic party. Just wanted to hear what you guys thoughts on this were. I think that all to often we simply follow what our leadership says without questioning why they are telling us what they are.
We are at the beginning of a new century, and I believe that we need new approaches to dealing with the problems we face. While I do think that reparations are owed, we all know that they will never be paid. I would prefer something that would address the current funding of schools in the inner city as opposed to those in the suburbs. As you know, schools receive their funds via personal property taxes from the state. Now of course people in the burbs are going to have more money to fund their schools, thus leaving our inner city youth with the short end of the stick. Also we need to address the lack of capital in the inner city, and allow for tax breaks for companies who don't see the inner cities as a profitable venue.
Just some thoughts, I will get off of my soap box, and get my azz back to work.
Peace and Luv
MN
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