It's Also Important For Those Who Promote

I Was A Member Of The Black Student Union, Part Of The Central Committee At San Francisco State. During The 1968 Strike There, I Was Certainly Very Much Involved In The Activities That Occurred On Campus. It Was Part Of An Extraordinary Period In My Life

Leadership Has To Be Focused On Some Very Radical Ideas That Only We As 21st Century People Can Talk About: Making Sure People Have A Livelihood, Making Sure People Receive A Living Wage, Making Sure The Environment, The Mother Earth, Is Embraced And Cherished And Not Destroyed. Making Sure People Are Healthy In What They Eat, Making Sure We Hold People And Corporations Accountable For The Damage They Do Not Only To Our Environment But To Our Institutions.

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The Civil Rights Movement Didn't Deal With The Issue Of Political Disenfranchisement In The Northern Cities. It Didn't Deal With The Issues That Were Happening In Places Like Detroit, Where There Was A Deep Process Of Deindustrialization Going On. So You Have This Response Of Angry Young People, With A War Going On In Vietnam, A Poverty Program That Was Insufficient, And Police Brutality. All These Things Gave Rise To The Black Power Movement. The Black Power Movement Was Not A Separation From The Civil Rights Movement, But A Continuation Of This Whole Process Of Democratization.

President Obama Is A Man Who Had Certain Advantages Because Of The Civil Rights Movement. He Had The Opportunity To Go To Some Of The Best Schools In This Country - Schools That Train You How To Run The Political Paradigm, Not Challenge It. The Leaders Of The Black Power Movement Were Challenging That Paradigm.