From: taylor@hojo.larc.nasa.gov (Barney Taylor)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: MALCOLM X: From An African-American
Date: 26 Jan 1993 20:02:42 GMT
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In article <1993Jan26.154444.28373@netnews.noc.drexel.edu>, glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu writes:
|> In article <stovall.727996779@ficus.cs.ucla.edu> stovall@ficus.cs.ucla.edu
|> (Steven Stovall) writes:
|> >Josefina Velasquez <josefina@igc.apc.org> writes:
|> >
|> >>Great Leaders do not drop from the sky, nor are they born great.  Leaders
|> >>are born of the people's struggle, and if the peopple are waging a great
|> >>struggle this struggle must give rise to great leaders.
|> >
|> >>Malcolm X became a great leader at a time when African-Americans were
|> >>rising up, at a time when Black people were taking our future into our own
|> >>hands.
|> >
|> >This has the ring of truth. I have been wondering why there were so many
|> >great black men walking the earth during the 60's: Malcolm, MLK, Huey P.,
|> >Rap Brown, John Coltrane...
|> >
|> >There do not seem to be such men today, but maybe its because we as a
|> >people are not "waging a great struggle" as we were in those days. But
|> >how are we to become galvanized into a revolutionary wave of historical
|> >force without the inspired presence of such men? Perhaps we should return
|> >to the simple grass-roots organizing principles of the early civil rights
|> >movement, but with a goal not of fundamental rights but rather knowledge
|> >of self.
|> >
|> There are no great leaders of today, because everyone is afraid to take the
|> initiative. Also along the same lines, if one were to become a leader, he has
|> no tangible sunbstances(eg. people) to concentrate his/her efforts on. The
|> problem must be first identified, and then the people must believe
|> support(economically, mentally, physically, & spiritually) and die for the
|> cause of the ORGANIZATION created by the leader. Notice I said the organization
|> and not the leader, because if we once again follow one person, white supremacy
|> will assasinate him/her and the cause will die.
|> 

There is no need to feel that there are no leaders today with the charisma (sp) of the 
previous mentioned leaders of the sixties, because there are. Some of which are
Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr John H. Clarke, Ivan Van Sertima, Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan,
Asa Hilliard, and many more. The statement that everyone is afraid to take the
initiative is not founded. It should be noted though, the media is a movement's worst
enemy. So it is only wise on our part, and smart on the part of those who are against Pan-Africanist, black nationalist, etc., not to nationally support our leaders via 
media.

enough for now, 
I know you all are going to kill me over that little bit,

Barney

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NASA Computer Scientist / Software Engineer

The previous comments do not represent the
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any part.

Hetep
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