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DON LEMON
Don Lemon On The Tom Joyner Morning Show: Journalist Calls
Out The New Black Leaders
HUFFPOST Posted:09/10/2013 1:57 pm EDT | Updated: 09/10/2013 3:17 pm EDT
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The CNN reporter debuted his new segment on the Tom Joyner Morning Show Tuesday, talking about a topic he’s grown comfortable discussing as of late: the issues within the black community. He insisted that the burden of leadership in the community has shifted.
“Why am I so sure about that? I want you to ask yourself the last time you heard a young person walking around singing a church hymn?”
Lemon announced the exciting development on Twitter, telling followers to expect to hear his perspectives on the show every Tuesday and Thursday.
About to premiere on @tjmshow. Every Tuesday and Thursday. pic.twitter.com/FZtToACStx
— Don Lemon (@DonLemonCNN) September 10, 2013
His comments come on the heels of his controversial statements about the “five ways to fix our community,” which caused a firestorm of backlash from critics including Russell Simmons.
During Tuesday's segment, the 47-year-old journalist said the power brokers and influencers of the 1960’s were the churches, unions, preachers and even radio hosts/DJs, but today the influence has shifted and those who currently have the label of “black leaders” don’t do enough to move the status quo.
“Might some of them be keeping us from evolving because of their idea of Dr. King’s dream hasn’t evolved past 1963?”
And if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, Lemon says King would likely align with the present-day entertainers because of their influence on the black community.
"So that’s why in my work as a journalist, I constantly challenge and urge the rap, hip-hop and music power brokers to step on to the stage of positive influence and into the fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream, because whether they realize it or not they are the new breed, they are the new black leaders. They are the influences of our time. And I don’t mean that I challenge them in a negative way. I mean that in the best possible way, that their names can too be one day be worthy of boulevards, and avenues, and streets.
Yep, you Waka Flocka, Gucci Mane, you T.I.,Luda can be
the next Harry Belafonte of the struggle. Beyoncé, Rihanna, you can be the next
Lena Horne or Mahalia Jackson; of course, in your own way."
He went on to praise Jamie Foxx for his presence at the March on Washington, echoing Harry Belafonte’s comments calling for black celebrities to step up to the plate as leaders in the black community.
“Because unlike some of the black leaders who get so much criticism today, your livelihood as artists don’t depend on keeping people thinking the same way they did half a century ago.”
HUFFPOST Posted:
Who are
The CNN reporter debuted his new segment on the Tom Joyner Morning Show Tuesday, talking about a topic he’s grown comfortable discussing as of late: the issues within the black community. He insisted that the burden of leadership in the community has shifted.
“Why am I so sure about that? I want you to ask yourself the last time you heard a young person walking around singing a church hymn?”
Lemon announced the exciting development on Twitter, telling followers to expect to hear his perspectives on the show every Tuesday and Thursday.
About to premiere on @tjmshow. Every Tuesday and Thursday. pic.twitter.com/FZtToACStx
— Don Lemon (@DonLemonCNN) September 10, 2013
His comments come on the heels of his controversial statements about the “five ways to fix our community,” which caused a firestorm of backlash from critics including Russell Simmons.
During Tuesday's segment, the 47-year-old journalist said the power brokers and influencers of the 1960’s were the churches, unions, preachers and even radio hosts/DJs, but today the influence has shifted and those who currently have the label of “black leaders” don’t do enough to move the status quo.
“Might some of them be keeping us from evolving because of their idea of Dr. King’s dream hasn’t evolved past 1963?”
And if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, Lemon says King would likely align with the present-day entertainers because of their influence on the black community.
"So that’s why in my work as a journalist, I constantly challenge and urge the rap, hip-hop and music power brokers to step on to the stage of positive influence and into the fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream, because whether they realize it or not they are the new breed, they are the new black leaders. They are the influences of our time. And I don’t mean that I challenge them in a negative way. I mean that in the best possible way, that their names can too be one day be worthy of boulevards, and avenues, and streets.
Yep, you Waka Flocka, Gucci Mane, you T.I.,
He went on to praise Jamie Foxx for his presence at the March on Washington, echoing Harry Belafonte’s comments calling for black celebrities to step up to the plate as leaders in the black community.
“Because unlike some of the black leaders who get so much criticism today, your livelihood as artists don’t depend on keeping people thinking the same way they did half a century ago.”
You may not want to accept it, but these are the voices who has captured the media and your attention. The ones that every body is talking about and you don't hear them speaking of no other black figure as a leader. Why? Simply because we don't have any! Its' time to wake up.....
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