tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post2220031412281833188..comments2024-03-18T14:34:31.684-05:00Comments on Horizons: Passing the BatonNancy LeTourneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12614317154146836694noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163441833245663827.post-69866154411456154812015-01-18T16:23:20.922-06:002015-01-18T16:23:20.922-06:00This is not a new movement...we should not be abou...This is not a new movement...we should not be about reinventing the wheel....the struggle for peace and freedom and justice...did not just begin in Ferguson...nor will it end there...it is ongoing...we are continuing the long march towards freedom<br /><br />...this bickering between forces is not new either...there was tension between those that believe in non-violence and those who were tired of turning the other cheek...<br /><br />not sure where this will all end..but there is a need to speak with one voice...a voice that can bring together the different focuses..<br />the movement that brought about the VRA and CRA did not happen over night...it was a long process....<br /> Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Defense Fund were in courts challenging the legal aspect of JIM CROW and segregation...shaping the movement themselves...Dr King and others were organizing on the ground to the same end...<br /><br />there was a critique that was made of the movie Selma....that called to me...'..here is just a lil bit of it...<br /><br />http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/selma-review/<br /><br />A lot has been made in the last half-year about the diffusion of leadership as opposed to its consolidation. What if, when it comes to criminal justice and racial discrimination, a black president and a black attorney general are only as powerful as the political thinkers and actors on the ground in communities? Black Twitter is one thing. Black leadership is something else. Some of the activism around the #BlackLivesMatter movement is, at best, a free-for-all. It feels closer to the anarchic energy of the Occupy Wall Street movement than it does to civil-rights-era protests.<br /><br /> The faint hope this summer was that a figure with even some of King’s social and political shrewdness would emerge to connect the grassroots to the establishment. Believers in second comings might say, Take a number.<br /><br />It is not easy to forge an agenda and strategy...not just a list of demands...but i am hopeful that the march towards freedom will continue..<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com