Black People And Our Fascination With Following Dead Leaders
"Why do you seek the living one among the dead?" Luke 24:5
We love to worship the dead. We wait till our good leaders die then we name a street after them and/ or put up a symbolic picture and claim that was my man... I follow him.
Meanwhile, the living leader is ignored while we quote the words of a dead leader, marvel over his deeds and wonder what he would do if he was present. We can speculate all day but will never know how they will respond to present conditions.
Once the[in the present] ignored living leader is dead we give him his props, put up a picture, name an alley after him and the cycle continues when a new living leader comes among us.
While I am speaking of this as an issue within the context of the black community there is evidence of this being a universal phenomenon....