We Need 'Trans Leaders', Not 'Leading Trans' People

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We Need 'Trans Leaders', Not 'Leading Trans' People
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
24 March, 2011


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/03/we-need-trans-leaders-not-leading-trans.html 🔗


One of the highlights of the 2007 Tavis Smiley State Of The Black Union event for me was when Dr. Julia Hare of the Black Think Tank spelled out in a fiery speech the difference between 'Black leaders' and 'leading Blacks'.

Dr. Hare noted that iconic Black leaders like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ida B. Wells, and Harriet Tubman "didn't put themselves first; they put the community first, unlike many of today's supposed Black leaders." She noted that the difference between Black leaders and "leading Blacks." was that leading Blacks "get paid while you (the community) get played."