By now I'm sure most of you have either heard or heard about the rift between Rev. Al Sharpton and Tavis Smiley. It seems that the issue between them is whether or not President Obama needs to focus on a "Black agenda". Well, I'm sure you have your opinion about that issue and so do I, but I think there's another issue that's more prevalent and needs more attention than the so called Black agenda that Sharpton and Smiley are debating. It's the internal warfare between people of color.
The way I see it is this, we're fighting a war within a war. There's a war between, African-Americans, Black folks, and Niggas.
African-Americans have made a little money and have their noses turned up at the rest of us, so much so that they don't want to be called Black anymore, they're "African-Americans". I guess they figure if they add the American to it that somehow this country will actually give a damn about them.
Black folks are in the middle struggling trying to keep the race together, all the while trying to move it forward as a whole and not just a few here and there.
And, niggas are doing dumb shit like, making millions of dollars off of their God given talents but jeopardizing it all and messing it up for everybody else by bringing guns into the locker room, or having weed and guns on their tour bus and going to jail for it. The saddest thing about niggas is that they are the ones that a lot of our kids look up to. Until we stop fighting this internal war, we'll never be ready for the real war that we need to fight.
So, Mr. Smiley and Rev. Sharpton, until we address this issue, I don't see how we can try to push a Black agenda on ANY president, not just the Black one, and genuinely expect real results, because we can't get it together as a people in order to reap any benefits of a Black agenda being addressed by the president.
That's The Green Chimp's take on it, what's yours?
I just wanna know who deemed the so called Rev. Al Sharpton as a black leader anyway?
ReplyDeleteRev. Al, Jesse Jackson, Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Young, Joseph Lowery and others are basically remnants from the Civil Rights Movement and Rev Al, is the most vocal of those remnants along with Jesse Jackson. But, given Jesse's scandals of late, Rev. Al has been thrust into the forefront as a so called Black leader. Typically what happens in a crowd of people is the person who yells the loudest is considered to be right. So, right now Rev Al is yelling the looudest about Black issues and is thus seen as a Black leader.
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