Wynter to Black America: "Stop marching and praying and calling into talk radio shows with your outrage, it is child’s play. Grow up and come out and play with the big boys." Do you agree that African-Americans need to step up our game?

conservatives need to admit they have their own brand of brain washing aimed at followers. this season of politics as been a virtual tit for tat. conservatives have held the reigns in Washington, but some how convince constitutes to drink the poison in hopes it hurts the Democrats :)

I am trying to figure out if some of the tenets expressed are Wynter's own philosophy or if he is stating them simply as observations eg "effective is what counts, nothing else matters especially not fairness." Or " Stop marching and praying and calling into talk radio shows with your outrage."

Without talk radio to set the agenda and tell some conservatives what to think, who to demonize, they would be at a loss.

Lastly, how would voting for Santorum help, again? It would send a message to whom? I am missing the logic here.

Our elders have failed us with their failure to evolve. As Malcolm X says so well, we are doing too much singing and marching and not a damn thing is coming from it. The Alabama Bus Boycott was one of the greatest tools as it showed that we can do it without the use of their system. Shelley is right, calling into shows on WAOK whining, bitching and moaning about the problems without any plans of action and implementation is piss poor. 2012 is around the corner and we are still singing, We Shall Overcome. When I look at the black community, I see black politicians coming with the same charged racial rhetoric that keeps the sheep scared, mad and angry to keep them in office. We support these black politicians, the same ones who have the police in your neighborhoods keeping an eye out for traffic violations (revenue generation) not for criminal activity. But yet, if the same people were white, we would be outraged.

@glen I know it is somewhat hard to "get out the box" and not be proactive on anything . It is much easier to wait and see what soemone is going to do to harm you and then get mad and fight it after it is already been done. the logic in what i put out there is to help give repubs their candidate one who can be beat by obama. Since there is no primary candidate for obama then vote in repub primary and vote for least qualifiied candidate. See logic, proactive and devious al at once.

In other words, Shelley is using the Rush Limbaugh tactic of Operation Chaos where he was encouraging Democrats to vote for Hillary. This was during the time when Barack was overtaking Hillary in the polls and during the primaries. Rush's logic was, this will make Barack come up with a more solid platform and fight harder for the nomination rather than simply getting it by default. The GOP has similar issues as well of defaulted nominations (lets get someone who looks presidential over a good platform). When it comes to public policy, our community must get past this, 'somebody is out to get me' attitude.

@Anderson, the statement said was in general. I didn't use the word "all" as I know we have some elders who are progressive and evolving with the times. Unfortunately, we have some who have utter contempt for the next generation and after that. I don't take away from the hard work and accomplishments that was done by the Civil Rights movement but I do have major issues on the followup in the subsequent decades.