Originally Posted by Eric5273

If you have a problem with a particular activist, then do indeed voice your opinion. But do you have a problem with one particular activist, or do you have a problem with all of them? For example, can you name a civil rights activist in the last 10 years who you find admirable? If not, then I would be skeptical of how fair minded you are on the subject.

One thing you have to realize is there is a coordinated effort by the media in this country to discredit civil rights activists. There always has been....

I find it funny how today everyone says Martin Luther King Jr. was such a great civil rights leader and they say "too bad today's black leaders are not more like him". What I find funny about this is that many of today's black leaders are the same people who were in MLK's organization and worked alongside him. Jessie Jackson Jr. is one example. The both of them were 99% similar in their objectives and the methods of achieving them. One of them simply died and is now viewed honorably as a "matyr" while the other has lived on and continued to be criticized by the media.

If you were alive back in the 1960s, you would remember that King was constantly criticized by the media and he too was accused of being a self promotor, opportunist, violence instigator, communist, and even a terrorist (by the FBI). It was only after he died that the mainstream media suddenly loved him. More likely they loved that he was now dead and could cause no more "trouble" (in their view).