Where are the Black Leaders?

I ask this question in all seriousness and I hope that I don’t offend anyone. But this is a  question I have asked over and over again for years, it has haunted me and led to my choosing education as my career field, and it eventually led to the creation of this blog. So where are the Black Leaders? Where is our hope? Our Web Dubois or Malcolm X? Where is the future Marcus Garvey and Booker T. Washington? I would definitely kill for more Angela Davis’s and Audre Lordes, please and thank you.

We don’t see these pivotal figures in the American landscape anymore and I can’t help but wonder why? What happened in the past few decades that led to the dwindling numbers within Black America’s leadership? The answer to this question is multifaceted and complex and will be explored in more detail in later posts. I hope in creating this blog we can go on a journey exploring America through the eyes of a jaded queer Black woman. We will learn about numerous topics, all of them grounded firmly in education and knowledge. This blog will be a place of venting, and a way to be yourself, unapologetically.

To answer my question though in simple terms…there are leaders in Black America, its just that the nature in which they exist and speak has changed throughout the years.