Black leaders: crusaders or curse

[jimmy pratt]

 

Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok!

 

The biggest problem in the African American community is our willingness to bury our head in sand and ignore what the rest of the world knows to be true; Black leaders are corrupt and owned. Below is the link to a landmark civil rights case. This case brought down the most powerful Klan group in America and created a law prohibiting this Klan group from marching in any predominately black community or harassing any Blacks.  Not one civil rights leader or African American elected official would help;  not one African American news organization would interview the plaintiffs or report the story. The plaintiffs in this case were not welcome in their hometown, among their friends and family. HERE’S WHY?

 

African American leaders decided it was better to cover up Klan terror and the cold blooded murder Klan murder of Joyce Sinclair than let it be known that prominent African Americans, elected officials and appointees were involved . And I quote: ... Racism would not continue for another single day without the complicity of so-called Black leaders. Malcolm X. In defense of this charge, I Proffer this link and scripture as proof of these charges:

http://www.learntoquestion.com/seevak/groups/2001/sites/dees/splc/c...

http://bible.cc/mark/6-4.htm

[Christine R. Rickett]

I love black men. Now, why you want to beat up on my brothers??? Do you serve as a better role model? Are you a black leader mentoring young black men in a poor community?  I'm just asking because that's what we need in the poor black communities, men who are flawless black men serving in black communities.

[jimmy pratt]

No I do not consider myself a black leader; I just try to be a good person and hope that it sets an example. I’m one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that I mention. I am now and will always believe in Black Nationalism. At the age of 14, I started following Malcolm X; it is my belief that he and other nationalist had it right. It was their agenda that created the innovated programs that exist

 It is my belief that young blacks needs saving and they need saving from Black Adults who are bent on saddling them with the so-called race problem. My job today is to provide a voice in opposition to that. I raised money bought time on the radio and show those who listen just why prisons are filled with young blacks. Also I’m on this site to challenge those who give whites dominion over black people because of the pigment of their skin. Here is the problem. I told you that black leaders covered up racist murder and Klan terror and you accused me of beating up on brothers. Black kids cannot survive living among adults that want protect them.

Christine R. Rickett said:

I love black men. Now, why you want to beat up on my brothers??? Do you serve as a better role model? Are you a black leader mentoring young black men in a poor community?  I'm just asking because that's what we need in the poor black communities, men who are flawless black men serving in black communities.

[Christine R. Rickett]

That's great! The black movement in the past gave many young black men a direction and hope.

Malcolm X, Elijah Juhammad and Farrakan, I respect them all and the lives they changed. However, until we as a people can create jobs within our own communites where our young men can work, it will be difficult for them to embrace Islam. I've seen with my own eyes black nationalist chased out of the military and other jobs. These young men on the streets today need work. The ones coming out of jails and prisons as well. Whether they learn about God or Allah, they need work to feed themselves and their families.

However, all black leaders are not corrupt and owned because their direction is different from yours. There are black leaders who are driven to feed the hungry.  It depends on the passion of that black leader. There are even blacks leaders who take on gang members, challenging them to be productive in their communities, mentoring them. We just don't have enough of black leaders mentoring our young men. After getting their attention and mentoring them-they still need a job.

There are black leaders who are driven to develop black leaders for tomorrow. These young leaders today will be congressional leaders tomorrow making sure Jim-Crow bills are not passed to become laws.

Just as you try to raise awareness to young men through radio, some leaders raise awareness in the classroom.

Are you taking the lead in what you think should be done? That means you are a leader.

It begins with all of us in the black community today to love and respect each other, setting that example for our children before they can respect each other.

 

[jimmy pratt]

I didn't mean to mislead you; I'm Christian and have never been a Muslim. I’ve been reading your post and I can see that you are a caring person. What you are describing here are not issues or problems in the black community but evidence. This evidence says that a people have been exploited.

 

 In one of your reply you clearly state that the black support system is broken. An environment like that is suppose to produce poverty and misery and not rocket scientist. Maybe if we would just start with holding someone responsible, thing might change. Its funny how we hold people we don’t vote for or with responsible and make excuses for those we vote for. No, all black leaders are not corrupt but the ones who sets the agenda are. And that is all that’s needed.

Christine R. Rickett said:

That's great! The black movement in the past gave many young black men a direction and hope.

Malcolm X, Elijah Juhammad and Farrakan, I respect them all and the lives they changed. However, until we as a people can create jobs within our own communites where our young men can work, it will be difficult for them to embrace Islam. I've seen with my own eyes black nationalist chased out of the military and other jobs. These young men on the streets today need work. The ones coming out of jails and prisons as well. Whether they learn about God or Allah, they need work to feed themselves and their families.

However, all black leaders are not corrupt and owned because their direction is different from yours. There are black leaders who are driven to feed the hungry.  It depends on the passion of that black leader. There are even blacks leaders who take on gang members, challenging them to be productive in their communities, mentoring them. We just don't have enough of black leaders mentoring our young men. After getting their attention and mentoring them-they still need a job.

There are black leaders who are driven to develop black leaders for tomorrow. These young leaders today will be congressional leaders tomorrow making sure Jim-Crow bills are not passed to become laws.

Just as you try to raise awareness to young men through radio, some leaders raise awareness in the classroom.

Are you taking the lead in what you think should be done? That means you are a leader.

It begins with all of us in the black community today to love and respect each other, setting that example for our children before they can respect each other.

 

[Christine R. Rickett]

I like the way you phrase it, that the black support system is broken.

Also, thank you for setting me straight in that you are a Christian. I admire The Nation of Islam and would go as far to say love them. I love it that they love us, their people. I agree with them that we as a people NEED not a fake service and worship to Allah/God but true service and worship. We do need to see people - black or white for what or who they really are. Honestly, I don't allow myself to stress over wicked people. I don't make the time to fool with them. I have more important things to do - LIKE - figure out what I myself can do to help my fellow brother.

 

You are absolutely right!!! I do hold people we don't vote for with more of the responsibilities. The reason is because we never really know who anyone is until they climb the ladder and get to where they want to be. We cannot read others mind. Money and power corrupts at times when people forget why they worked so hard to get there. What I mean is - Some people inherently are corrupt and are out to get for themselves. Some people become corrupt after getting there - romancing in the power and glory of their position. The other group remain conscience that they don't want the money or power to corrupt themselves and stay focus to use it and help others. We never can know which group our leaders will fit in until they get there. I don't put my faith in any one man. I only put faith in God. So, I don't rely on anyone in leadership positions, I just pray that they do the right things and focus on those at the bottom.

To me, the only one we should be "looking up" to is God himself. Obama is a man. But just and intelligent man who sits in a man made Oval Office. The authority he has, is given to him by human beings who vote. That authority cannot raise the dead physically or spirituality. So, I do not and cannot put faith in him. He is a man. When I'm not "looking up", I'm looking right in front of me and to the sides. I'm looking at people who God put on this earth to help each other. I look to us all to put our minds together and come up with ideas, solutions that will help the old lady next door or the child in foster home whose parents are in jail and strung out on drugs, or embrace the one on drugs who's down and out and who feels hopeless.

Brother, I have to go to school.

I enjoy  always learning from you and those on this site. This site is really just like a Round Table of people coming together seeking solutions.

[Christine R. Rickett]

Christine R. Rickett said:

I like the way you phrase it, that the black support system is broken.

Also, thank you for setting me straight in that you are a Christian. I admire The Nation of Islam and would go as far to say love them. I love it that they love us, their people. I agree with them that we as a people NEED not a fake service and worship to Allah/God but true service and worship. We do need to see people - black or white for what or who they really are. Honestly, I don't allow myself to stress over wicked people. I don't make the time to fool with them. I have more important things to do - LIKE - figure out what I myself can do to help my fellow brother.

 

You are absolutely right!!! I do hold people we don't vote for with more of the responsibilities. The reason is because we never really know who anyone is until they climb the ladder and get to where they want to be. We cannot read others mind. Money and power corrupts at times when people forget why they worked so hard to get there. What I mean is - Some people inherently are corrupt and are out to get for themselves. Some people become corrupt after getting there - romancing in the power and glory of their position. The other group remain conscience that they don't want the money or power to corrupt themselves and stay focus to use it and help others. We never can know which group our leaders will fit in until they get there. I don't put my faith in any one man. I only put faith in God. So, I don't rely on anyone in leadership positions, I just pray that they do the right things and focus on those at the bottom.

To me, the only one we should be "looking up" to is God himself. Obama is a man. But just and intelligent man who sits in a man made Oval Office. The authority he has, is given to him by human beings who vote. That authority cannot raise the dead physically or spirituality. So, I do not and cannot put faith in him. He is a man. When I'm not "looking up", I'm looking right in front of me and to the sides. I'm looking at people who God put on this earth to help each other. I look to us all to put our minds together and come up with ideas, solutions that will help the old lady next door or the child in foster home whose parents are in jail and strung out on drugs, or embrace the one on drugs who's down and out and who feels hopeless.

Brother, I have to go to school.

I enjoy  always learning from you and those on this site. This site is really just like a Round Table of people coming together seeking solutions.

 

Last thing.

I vote to put people in office - just to give the other folks up there hell and not because I really think they can magically do anything. But if they do something good, that's great. I want the powers to be shaken up. Idleness brings up even more wickedness than what's already  within mankind. I want racist people to have to deal with people that's different from them like we had to deal with at the level we are at.

I vote because people who are racist, prefer for blacks not to vote, and there was a time we couldn't, but the Constitution gives me the right.

I vote because I am a woman and there was a time we couldn't because of the prejudices of men, but the Constitution gives me the right.

I vote for anything that's good to shake up the bad.

If it was all black men in power, and I love my black men, and they were bad, I'd vote white to shake things up. I don't like evil from who ever is giving it.

 

I am an equal opportunity person.

 

Peace