Out with the old

The news coverage of Jesse Jackson's under-his-breath attacks on Obama, meant half-seriously or not, further illustrates that his generation of black leaders have got to go.
These are politicians that feel it is their god-given right to be consulted by the white media and politicians as "Professional Blacks." They are black for a living, with Sharpton of course the most obvious example. I can't help thinking of ex-Detroit Czar/Mayor-for-Life Coleman Young's quote that "Jesse don't want to run nothing but his mouth."
Being quoted for "the black opinion," is in fact a kind of racism. Did someone appoint Jackson et al. as world spokesmen for millions of black people? Yet it is the Jacksons of the world that are raising the question of whether Obama is really black, like he has to pass a test. Theirs.
We've seen what happens when Harlem was basically given as a fiefdom to a few politicians. When Charles Rangel (no matter his immense personal appeal) and company ran the Harlem redevelopment authority, guess how many large projects were built there? Zero. It was only when the authority was de facto dissolved that development started. The neighborhood was, as someone said about Detroit until Young stepped down, "a black plantation run by blacks."