The Gantt Report - In my opinion, too many of our current so-called Black American heroes are essentially zeros in disguise!

Before integration, we had more of a say in who led us and whom we would follow. Nowadays, anybody with a job with the white man, a contract with the white man, a distribution deal with the white man or blessings by white church officials can claim to be a Black leader.

Correct me if I’m wrong but I think Martin Luther King Junior was elected to serve as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Council, Huey Newton was chosen to head The Black Panther Party, Marcus Garvey was selected to lead the Universal Negro Improvement Association and so forth.

Yes, today “leading Blacks” are wrongfully depicted as “Black leaders”. Most of the people propped up, set up and hooked up by the devilish beast and their boot licking lackeys can’t draw flies to an outhouse!

M LK had a march on Washington, Farrakhan had a Million Man March but which so-called Black leader, given that title by non-Blacks, can get a thousand people to come together for a cause?

Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vessey got people to come together, rise up and fight evil slave masters.

You be hard pressed today to get Black people to come together to fight a cold! You couldn’t get your friends and neighbors to take up arms if you gave out food stamps, Medicaid cards and government checks along with each distributed rifle!

I’m from Atlanta and I remember when you could walk into the SCLC office on Auburn Avenue and meet with and talk to anyone in there including Dr. King, Rev. Abernathy or Joseph Lowery.

I could walk up to the house in East Lake, knock on the door and ask to speak to Hosea Williams. I could go to Georgia State or one of the other colleges and universities in Atlanta and slam dunk on Andrew Young, once an avid community basketball player. On Chevelle Lane in Decatur, Georgia, I could walk across the street and have long conversations with Maynard Jackson right in his front yard.

Call one of your so-called leaders of today and see if they’ll talk to you. Send them an e-mail and see if they will respond. Be crazy one day and try to touch the hem of their garments and see if security guards won’t try to beat you to a pulp!

Today’s so-called Black leaders are quick to take on such a title but they are slow to embrace the people and the causes that are of interest to the people they “lead”.

True Black community leaders do exist. The true leaders are the ones that won’t sell Black people down the river for rice and peas. True Black leaders are not afraid to walk, work and play in Black communities. True Black leaders don’t bite their tongues when it’s time to speak out. True Black leaders don’t bow down when its time to stand up.

All of my community leaders and Black heroes have been to jail! All of these celebrities, jack-legged preachers, corporate sellouts and broadcast personalities can back up off of it!

All of my Black leaders have been to jail from Jesus Christ to MLK to Malcolm X to Rosa Parks to Angela Davis to Marcus Garvey to Nelson Mandela to the brothers and sisters currently in prisons inside of prisons at this very minute.

Don’t believe the hype and don’t let the devilish white press designate your community leaders. (Gantt's new book "Beast Too: Dead Man Writing" is coming soon. Contact Lucius at www.allworldconsultants.n et)