In most cases I usually agree with my pastor and his opinions. This time thou, I have to disagree if for no other reason than the premise he uses is already flawed. The assertion that the President is responsible for galvanizing his people is flawed. See the idea that a President is responsible to one person, or one group is inaccurate. The basic premise of politics is that you are bound the hands that fuel you. A President, while the first of his color, or religion must still be accountable to everyone. And for that reason, among others, he or she cannot be the galvanizing force anyone would like. That role usually falls to the community leader, the preacher, the teacher, the person who can have a voice to speak freely and the ability to cater to one specific group. The great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, were not political figures, they were regular men who aspired for great things for their people. They were not bound by the hands that fed them, because the hands that fed them were the very ones they were fighting for. 

The question though does have to be asked.. Who will pick up the torch and take the on the cause of Black people today? Unlike 50 years ago when we were trying to get equality in a human rights sense; now we are looking to equality in the corporate world, equality among our people and definitely an equality among our different sections of people. It seems like money has come into our community and destroyed the unity that once existed. The desire to “White” ourselves has appeared to strip us of some of the individualism that we as a people displayed.  The LGBT community in the Black community is still disgraced and shamed as unequal and in some circles a freak show. If we really want to know where the next leaders of the movements will come from, then you may want to look to the LGBT community, to this new generation that is not nearly as hung up on where you come from, what you look like, who you sleep with and more on who you are and what you want to do.