Marketing, packaging and product is as core and valued an item as anything else. Just ask any homemaker. Right down to the smallest detail. Take Cindy Sheehan. (Puleeze!). Why her? There were others before her. Remember -- whomever is "chosen" or selected or however you wish to put it.. it's NOT just the issue. Not just the "package". It's the timing. And as you say -- yes, Rosa Parks had backing. We could go back and forth, you and I, on the "connections" thing (who has "connections"); but that is only a factor in a larger equasion. You can have the best connections in the world, but should you not be "marketable" as a "product" or spokesman or representative, that bottom line or goal can be very adversely affected. Why would the left-wing black activist groupies elect to be associated, say, with "shabazz"? Certainly, there are more reasonable spokesmen, more presentable than Shabazz. So. Why him? It's the good cop/bad cop "presentation, IMHO.
Question: Were you involved with the original folks who protested?
I get the impression there's something more on your mind.
I'm far too young for that :-)
I'm just an iconoclast I guess.
I think we've come to reasonable understanding on the subject.