Who is on your Mount Rushmore of blk leadership?

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I got Malcolm, Elijah Muhammad, Garvey and Booker T

Honorable mentions: Amos Wilson, Adam Clayton Powell jr, Nannie Helen Burroughs
I came in to clown but this is pretty solid list

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I'm glad you brought this up. What was the reasoning for everyone's list? Or the criteria?

Mine was leaders who actually were the leader of their group, made an impact, and were leaders long enough to meet its goals.
Those are my favorites because they were actual builders and creators…

Malcolm wasn’t considered a builder, Like Elijah, Harvey or Booker t tho but he helped with recruitment and still impacts generations even till today
 

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That caught me off guard. U a stone?
Nah, but it's bloods and travelers in my family though

I grew up hearing the history of different Chicago gangs moving down south from them. Mostly GD's but still some of everything depending on where you at

The El rukns were always the most interesting to me cause of the Libya connection.

Now that I'm older and identify with black leftism, I see fort as the prototype for radicalizing the lumpen proletariat. If only he and Fred hampton could've united the stones and panthers. I think things would've turned out way different. Panthers had the social consciousness and community programs and the El rukns had the muscle and gall to go to war with the government. But I guess both sides saw the other as not radical enough cause of the difference in ideals. Stones looked mostly like thugs that occasionally said conscious shyt to the panthers. And the panthers looked like wannabe revolutionaries that talked the talk but wouldn't commit to that level of violence to accomplish their goals. Shame cause they were two sides of the same coin then, and even now we need both types to learn from each other :francis:

Chicago history is interesting to learn about though cause of how connected everything is. shyt will have you like :ohhh:

Like how timuel black was a mentor figure to both Fort and Obama. Black tried to get Fort to link with the panthers but they couldn't stop beefing :francis:
 
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