Ferguson’s young protesters regarded Jesse Jackson’s visit as self-serving tokenism
Evidence
For the activists around the table with me, this famous civil rights leader (who I knew was the Reverend Jesse Jackson) had no real interest in the protests or the protesters or any real intention of substantively transforming the circumstances of the residents of Ferguson. He was there for himself. “I tell this story to illustrate how not to enter this place,” Brittany said, “because the same person got booed when he was at a rally a couple of days later.” — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 586
Categorization
- XREF: This generational indictment of legacy civil rights leadership connects to broader literatures on Black Lives Matter’s refusal of charismatic hierarchical leadership. — connects to: Legacy civil rights leaders appeared in Ferguson for self-promotion rather than real change
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Legacy civil rights leaders appeared in Ferguson for self-promotion rather than real change