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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Part of my point is that there are now a greater diversity of voices, and they're encouraging in very tangible ways. For instance, by being an example of how being focused and working hard can put you in a position to truly enact change as the mayor of a major American city.
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But that does not make that mayor a
leader in the face of civil rights for black people.
Being an example is not
enough.
We need someone as the face of the movement who not only discusses the problems and issues that the black community faces but also actively bring about change through peaceful organized protests, programs, lecturing the black youth about their history, problems they might have, educating certain communities etc. We need some structured guidance and organization for when these types of civil rights issues arises.
Part of the reason why the youth riots and loots is because they don't know how to respond to racism because they don't know their history. If they knew their history about what MLK did and stood for they would not be doing that.