Posted on 11/21/2004 9:57:58 AM PST by jolie560
It's time for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to retire while more good memories remain than bad. Check out Oprah and Cosby and Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods and P. Diddy and Russell Simmons and all those kids who're making it in the Ivy League. Are they members of the organization founded by the Rev. Martin Luther King decades ago? Charles Steele, an Alabama undertaker and state senator who has become the SCLC's last desperate-move president, is dedicated to making it an organization with global priorities. He wants it to be "prevalent and relevant" - in Africa and Asia.
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He wants it to be prevalent and relevant like the plague is prevalent and relevant on those continents? Or like the UN is prevalent and relevant on those continents?
(yeah, well, okay: there's not much contrast between those two examples...)
One thing these racial organizations need to understand is that while it was right and proper to use public policy to put an end to legal and political discrimination, it is neither proper, nor feasible, nor desirable to use public policy to force racial understanding and harmony. That's what needs to be accomplished, and it can only be done by inducing their constituents to present themselves to the public in the best light possible. In-your-face activism is completely counterproductive. Such organizations might still serve a purpose, but they need to fully re-think their positions in light of contemporary reality.
So long as the organization is a revenue producer for Corrie and her not so bright kids, it will be around!
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