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Political Dynasties in the African American Community

By Global Citizen Linda - Mar 29th, 2008 at 11:38 am EDT

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I think the time has come for the electorate to rigorously discuss the issue of political dynasties. During the course of this campaign, I heard regular people who happen to have voted for Senator Obama asking their own elected officials for accountability of their support for the Clintons. People were rightfully asking their elected officials just whose voice where they using and whose interest were they representing if their endorsements differed very widely from that of their voters.

I suggest that one of the less-discussed issue is the role of political dynasties through which people form a network of families who make politics a family business and become so connected to fellow leaders that they loose sight of their local constituents. Sadly, voters keep electing members of these same families whether or not the candidate in question is truly qualified to lead. I refer to this as the case of the political-cereal-brand since the voters choose the same family name just because they are familiar with this brand name.
In the African American community, there is the same problem of leaders who have been in power for more than 30 years and sometimes appear to be protecting their own political careers rather than their constituents. With more than 80% of your constituent voting for Obama why else would a leader you are throwing your support behind Clinton?. Some of these same leaders have already started to prepare their offspring for the same seat they hold - talk about political dynasties

One reason why some of these leaders are terrified of a President Obama and the new generation of leaders who are supporting him is because there will be a changing of the guard so to speak and therefore a loss way-of-living for those who are not very well qualified.

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