What lies in the future of the African-American community? The answer depends totally upon the perspective of the respondent. Some have become accustomed to the social stigmas associated with minority status in America. Their response is one of pure survival. They suggest we should be still and let well enough alone.

      This view is shared by a majority of the minority and historically would  have represented our plight had it not been for a small minority. This small minority promoted the social changes that moved us from slavery to quasi-freedom, from the back of the bus to front and from political pawns to players in the social arena. It has historically been the plight of  the minority of our people to fuel the waning hopes aspirations of a comfortable and fearful majority. The spokesmen for that minority have had different roles and different names over the years such as Denmark, Vessey, Douglas, Dubois, Booker Washington, Randolph, Newton, Malcolm, and King. They  represent the vocal minority whose message to a people comfortable in defeat is "we can possess a better life if we go up and seize it." Their report was one of hope in the face of  insurmountable odds. The majority rejected them but

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