Booker T Investigates Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Published 10-29-03
Who speaks for White people?
Why don't you ask them? :-)
Who is the leader of White people? Is it Robert Lilligren, Paul Ostrow, Tim Pawlenty, or R.T. Rybek? When these White people speak, are they speaking on behalf of all White people? Of course they aren't, so why is it that when Spike Moss, Reverend Staten, or Reverend Jerry McAfee speak, White people assume that they are speaking on behalf of all Black people?
Spike, Reverend Staten, and Reverend McAfee champion some good causes, and in most cases I am confident that they are speaking in the best interest of Black people. Some Black people, including myself, have criticized these individuals in the past for speaking for us without consulting some other Blacks outside of their leadership organizations.
It seems to me that Mayor Rybak and the ***Rybak Times*** didn't have any problems with these individuals until they started speaking for a united Black people. Once these individuals showed up at the Minneapolis School Board with the support of many organizations of color and White people, they got the attention of Rybak and the ***Rybak Times***.
R.T. Rybak and the ***Rybak Times*** saw fit to try to discredit these individuals once they realized that they were representing a united people of color. Rybak basically called these individuals non-authentic community leaders who just show up when the camera is rolling. Well, if these individuals are non-authentic, who needs to authenticate them? Is it me? Is it you? Is it R.T. Rybak?
No, we'll just leave it to identity politics and their practitioners, the social justice ideologues. As with Al Sharpton, C. Vernon Mason, Alton Maddox, William Kunstler, and Sonny Carson in New York City during the 1980's and 1990's, if all goes according to plan, we'll have a Republican mayor in Minneapolis.
Neal Krasnoff Loring Park
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