When the leaders are corrupt, the people will suffer. History has proven that nations and governments fall because of corrupt leadership. Greed and apathy toward the masses infect the head and eventually the whole body crumbles. Such is the case with world nations on down to local community groups and movements.

When developing a nation or movement, the people must be wise to choose their leader(s), and to understand in what direction the entire movement needs to go, because no people can move without direction and no people will reach that destination without someone who knows the way. Thus, leaders must know the way and be able to maintain and empower the masses while on the road to the final objective.

As a people, Black America (collectively) has no destination. There are too many visions and Dreams, and goals divided among too many sectors of the Black social spectrum. One sector believes integration and assimilation in America is the determined goal while another believes that Africa or a form of separatism should be the destination for Blacks. Yet another sector of Black America believes that God will provide the way and the means. One the other hand, many Blacks feel they have already reached their destination.

Individually, many have reached the land but have left off considering the road in which their children must travel - too blind or in denial about the obstructions along the way. The country will still be here when that person dies leaving the struggles of liberation to their children. If that child has not the blueprint for liberation left for him or her by their forbearers, they too, will walk blindly through a society predisposed to authoritarian tactics.

Without a plan or destination for the masses, they will never arrive at the place of true liberation from government oppression. If there is no plan passed down to the young of the people, they will perpetually wander aimlessly and in due course become weakened by the forces.

Black leadership is going in too many different directions for there to ever be a collective victory for the masses. On each road and behind the guidance of every Black leader, there is a lack of cohesiveness that should bind the followers, a lack of mental and spiritual energy to enlighten and motivate the masses. There is no strong enough reason for the young of Black America to care enough about their future thus there is no foundation, direction, nor future, except for the one already set into place by the oppressor.

Until someone stands and breaks through to the people with a strong mental and spiritual blow, the masses of Black America will crumble like the historical nations, movements, and even the now extinct indigenous tribes of people of the past. And as long as the leaders are self-centered, self-serving, and politically correct, the forces that break nations will defeat any efforts put forth. We must destroy current Black leadership and build new ones.

© December 2005 By CR Hamilton