It is often amusing reading the countless threads in this forum by those who endlessly speculate about and assume who the so called "black leaders and role models" are or should be.
The most significant and important people in any community are the millions of citizens who have realized that you are your own greatest leader or role model if you choose to be.
School teachers who realize that their work is more than a job and parents who raise their children to be good citizens and extraordinary mothers and fathers, are really the best role models out there, because they are the ones who show up everyday.
The truth is that it makes no sense for anyone to put all of their faith in a few public figures especially when they are "appointed" for you or assumed to be viable for you by someone who has no personal impact on your life or does not reside within your immediate circle of influence.
Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton do not "lead" anyone, and they are not thriving based on what is contributed to them by black citizens, however, they do get neverending exposure through the media and from a significant level of public paranoia because they have been successful at conditioning many like some who post in this forum to believe that every black citizen in America worships them and has them on speedial, or believe that they are just sitting around waiting for an opportunity to be dispatched into any city in America to march, boycott, or to just generally wreck havoc on the lives of white citizens by rallying or inciting "The Blacks".
Because of "race pimp" fear, Sharpton and Jackson have been transformed into the ubiquitous "Black Bogeymen" who want to steal or extort money from every innocent white citizen in America, for the least little personal affront to any black person in the country.
If the same media that publicizes their every movement and keeps the old memories of Tawana Brawley and "Hymietown" alive just ignored them, the mass hysteria and belief in the myth that they are heroes or role models to the black collective would disappear.
In the majority of the occasions that Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton are brought up in this forum, it is not because of any recent news or event that even involves them, it is usually someone making an ignorant comment that just illustrates how misinformed they are and how easily they are manipulated.
First, I should have said national role model - the man obviously is, and any argument to the contrary is untenable.
Your secound sentence/paragraph is unintelligible.
Your third asertion is correct, but it should be obvious that I am refering to a national figure - thus we are speaking about national role models.
To your 4th point/paragraph: the idea of a role model is to emulate them with the hope of also gaining like success which is not by appointment, but by due diligence
Continuing: Jackson, Sharpton, etc. wreak more havic on black America than white. They still influence huge masses of blacks in a negative way; affront with the victim message - see Zimmerman. They extort the blacks by stealing their ability to dream!
It is the liberal media who covers the race bating to keep the steady diet of bane flowing - the media that the majority of blacks support - it is their ignorance, and stupidity.
1. Actually the majority of what i posted was not directed at you. To your point, Carson is absolutely a model or success in his chosen field.
2. What is so "unintelligible" about "true role models" being parents and teachers who show up and are seen everyday?
3. I was not actually directing my comment towards you in my third statement.
4. Again, my 4th point was not directed at you. There was an ignorant individual who stated in your thread something to the effect: "why do blacks need Carson when they have Sharpton and Jackson?", which IMO was a stupid but typical statement for that person.
As far as Jackson and Sharpton wreaking havoc on the black population, I can only state what I know. Sharpton these days spends the majority of his time on his televised talk show, and in addition spends 3 hours daily on SiriusXM.
If you have satellite radio, I would advise you to listen occasionally to his radio show. More often than not, he tries to educate as opposed to inciting.
As far as Zimmerman goes, I am not sure that his case is a credible barometer in measuring the impact that Jackson or Sharpton has on the opinions of the average black American.
I know just as many non black people as black whö were not happy with the verdict.
Frankly, in my own circle of black professional friends, which probably far exceeds that of many here, I cannot recall the last time that either of those two were a topic of relevance in a discussion.
They are either misguided, or evil.
Maybe uninteligible is a poor choice in words, but I don't understand it. Your parent/teacher comment was next. They are more important than a intangible figure in the national arena no doubt - as there is an intimate connection.
