Let's talk about the term 'Black Leaders'

[superpatriotman]

I don't like the term or the insinuation that anyone follows these 'leaders'

[superpatriotman]

2. My 'black leader' is named Barack Obama

HE is a leader - who happens to be black.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. I think it's tacky too. Another thing that bothers me

specifically is when they call someone a gay or GLBT leader. When did we have the elections, because no one told me. It seems that every minority group has spokesmen that the media go to whenever there's some controversy involving that group.

I think that the primary reason media single out these unofficial spokespeople to opine on issues and speak for 'their' minority group is that so many reporters are just plain lazy. It's a hell of a lot easier to call up Al Sharpton and get his opinion on an issue than it is to go to a black neighborhood and interview the common person on the street. This is just another way that media distort issues and public opinion.

[orpupilofnature57]

5. + 1000 !!!!!!

Part of the African community agrees with Spike Lee, Cornel West and people not deemed leaders but are .

[Hekate]

13. "Tacky"? If it's not "your" group, who asked your opinion?

[LuvNewcastle]

15. This site is all about opinions, often unsolicited.

Am I breaking some rule now?

[WestCoastLib]

17. The OP here did

[superpatriotman]

18. Please explain

Just to be certain I re read the Terms of Use including the rules for posting. It is my contention that my opinion and request to begin a General Discussion broke no forum rules.

[Egnever]

6. .

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. all communities have leaders, and I don't think it implies that everyone in the community follows

those leaders.

minority communities often need different leaders than elected leaders, since more often than not we are not represented in elected leaders.

[Hekate]

9. Definitely

[Hekate]

8. This is a very weird thread. If you are not black, who asked you to endorse "Black leaders"?

Wow, the whole thread.

[SCantiGOP]

10. I agree, very odd post

I was on a jury for it, and voted to leave it but I will Trash it.

[Hekate]

11. We canceled each other's votes out then

I'm not trashing it -- I want to see who else shows up.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. indeed. so many weird responses too.

[Stellar]

14. I hate that with a purple passion! Take me to your leader... WHAT?!

There is NO one person that speaks for us all. Where the hell did that come from anyway? Who are the leaders of the White, Hispanic, Native Americans, etc...who speaks for them.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. you don't consider malcolm X a black leader?