WTF Jesse?

I'm trying to think have I ever said I wanted to cut another man's balls off? I went to an all boy's school and lived in an all boy's dorm for a combined seven years, so there was ample opportunity for such an utterance. I can't recall an instance in which someone has said and I hope no one has ever said they wanted to cut my balls off.



Anyway, I find Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr.'s comment disturbing. Did he feel Obama was so out of line he felt the need to castigate him? Aha or maybe he saw Obama's comments as "hitting below the belt", so therefore he felt the need to get him back.



To me this gaffe signifies the need for a new generation of leaders to emerge and further the civil rights agenda. Maybe it's time that we claim our inheritance. I contend that there is a great need for civil rights activists, and a great need for social activism from the local level to the national level. The only thing is these leaders should emerge from a new generation. I think a great deal of untapped potentail exists within what may be our "greatest generation." Only in this case those leaders in my view need to have been born between the year's 1960 and 1987. There enlies what I think can be a great generation of leaders who build on the legacy of the great Civil Rights movement while furthering an agenda which addresses the realities of our life.



When I think to who those leaders will be? I wonder if they'll be among them. What are our prospects? There are just a few folks on my radar screen.