JKurtis Ballantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:10:55 -0800 (PST)
From: JKurtis Ballantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fwd: RE: [Mpls] Article: MN Spokesman: Leaders of African American Community
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JKurtis Ballantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:05:04 -0800 (PST)
From: JKurtis Ballantine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [Mpls] Article: MN Spokesman: Leaders of African American Community
To: "Dooley, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I agree with the article. There is a dearth of serious and effective leadership since Gleason Glover left us. The skill of rising above the bickering and accomplishing something is clearly absent.
Example: Trent Lott......the reaction to his insidious comments was to say all Republicans have the same agenda. The Republican party has open enrollment and Lott hid in the Republican Party. However he's a Democrat, who got caught being a true Democrat. He never changed his democratic beliefs.
Yet the people who have the priviledge of being vocal and visible on issues are playing the race card against an entire political party, the Republican Party. These overtures create misguided relations and a lack of focus on critical issues like serving the interest of local communities.
Kurtis "Kurt" Ballantine,
Uptown
"Dooley, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
An interesting companion piece regarding the black leadership issue may be found at: "What's a Black Caucus?" by Clinton Collins, Jr., THE RAKE, January 2003. http://www.rakemag.com/features/detail.asp?catID=50&itemID=949
Bill Dooley
Kenny
-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 4:55 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Mpls] Article: MN Spokesman: Leaders of African American
Community
Where do 'community leaders' come from?
By: Booker T Hodges
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder
Originally posted 12/24/2002
Who picks the leaders of the African American
community? Is it me? Is it you? Is it
the community? Or is it whoever gets to
the media first when something unfortunate
happens in the African American community?
Lastly, what gives anyone the right to stand
in front of the camera and say that he or
she represents the African American
community?
I feel that it is important that these
questions be answered. During the past
two weeks, I and 10 others went around
the Twin Cities area asking people the
question, "Who are the leaders in the African
American community in the Twin Cities area?"
We went to shopping malls, downtown areas
during lunch hours, night clubs and street
corners.
http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/News/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=20552&sID=16
Booker T. Hodges welcomes reader comments to bookert@ bookertforgovernor.com
http://www.spokesman-recorder.com
Shawn Lewis, Field Neighborhood
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