This is an important moment in journalism and opinion writing as penned by the "Black Progressive-Fundamentalist Left". The AJC's Cynthia Tucker has called the SCLC "a relic of the past".
Still you'd just better not say anything bad about President Obama or Ms Tucker will go after you.
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The Atlanta-based SCLC is another black institution that simply no longer serves a vital purpose. Like Black History Month, all-black public colleges and the Miss Black America pageant, the SCLC has been rendered obsolete by black assimilation into the American mainstream. Rather than making yet another futile effort to save a dying patient, its board and supporters should come together to hold a lively funeral for the organization.
The ceremony ought to be like those “home-going” funerals for the long-lived. After all, the SCLC did its job so well that it is no longer needed. When the organization was founded, black women who shopped at a mainstream department store in downtown Atlanta couldn’t try on dresses in its changing rooms. Now, black models and actresses are featured on the covers of fashion magazines.
The day that I see Ms Tucker go after the Black and Democratic establishments, acknowledging their power over the key institutions over the communities where they dominate - I will believe her to be a fair shooter - telling it like it is.
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