Here’s why Bill Clinton took a shot at Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael.
We can’t allow anyone outside our community to decide what leaders from our community should act like. That’s another layer of white supremacy.
Southern white politicians do this like no other. Bill is a grand example. He did it with a bite of the lip. We don’t need his pat on the hand to say good job. To be clear, we have Black leaders with this same thinking and they are equally problematic.
The voices who told our people to embrace a future where we are in charge is exactly the energy we need right now.
We don’t need another Abraham Lincoln. We need more PBS Pinchback’s and Oscar Dunn’s.
We need more Black leaders with the courage to take charge and plot a more equitable future for us all.
And it isn’t radical to say we want to see more Black leaders.
We’ve seen for hundreds of years the racist construct built by white men. I’m bold enough to say, we can do better than that. We will do better than that. #KeepPushing #LetsGoHigher
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