The Face of Race in America
Nice work by MMG recently, commenting on the hyper-sensitivity that has developed around race in this country (and also noting how ridiculous the whole Newsweek fiasco has become).
I want to pick up on one of his points, having to do with Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharpton's reaction to President Vicente Fox's comments about black Americans vis-a-vis Mexican immigrants.
Why is it that every time someone says or does something that tends to offend or denigrate African-Americans, it's Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson who become the unofficial spokesmen of protest for the community? These guys have never been elected to anything - not for lack of trying - and yet both seem to feel entitled to some sort of ex officio leadership status in their community. Why? What has either done to deserve such status and influence?
Given the checkered and questionable history of both of these two guys, I don't see why either of them is owed an apology, or deserves a meeting, or has any right to speak on behalf of their community any more than I do when someone makes a distasteful Irish or Catholic joke (by the way did you hear the one about the Pope and Racquel Welch . . . forget it).
I think that what's really driving this stuff is that these two are controversial enough - and are so willing to be on television - that they become the go-to guys for the media every time someone does or says something to offend an African-American. It would be boring to listen to Barack Obama or Dennis Courtland Hayes or Julian Bond respond to a question about President Fox's remarks, because thier answers would probably be thoughtful, intelligent, and at least somewhat tempered. Getting a quote from Reverend Al, however, or from Reverend Jackson, will be made for TV, easy to print, and controversial enough to make people pay attention.
Reporters and writers are regular people, and they have to get their quotes or their footage or their draft in to an editor by a deadline. Why track down a thoughtful, intelligent, reasonable leader of the African American community when Al Sharpton will be your one-stop shop for good quotes and good tv footage.
I guess I don't have too much of a point here other than to suggest that it is unfortunate that these two get such a disproportionate share of influence in announcing what the so-called "Black" position on a given issue is going to be.
posted by Brian G. @ 1:58 PM
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That reminds me... how many Irish guys does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Ho Yeah Go Bragh!
Brian, let's write more often huh?
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