By james art 
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Rejecting a label given to today’s youth as “tomorrow’s leaders”, the most junior chosen by a black employee in the nation when he was elected to the House of South Carolina Representatives in 2006. He exhorts the students from the high school in the valley last week, for To accept what the civil rights leader Dr.
The best-selling author and political commentator Bakari Sellers was in Scottsdale to turn to the 25th annual MLK Youth Voices Program of Saguaro High School, and the city community celebrates MLK’s 31st MLK holiday.
“I hate when people call this group of students as” leaders of tomorrow, “Sellers told the collected students from nine high schools in the area. “This is the most prominent statement in our political lexicon, because all of you are not the leaders of tomorrow: you are the leaders of now.”
Sellers recalled when he was part of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 and his rally at South Carolina State University, near his hometown, and caused students not to wait for something more than themselves S
“I started thinking at this moment,” Here I am, of the gap of change, playing my role in watching the world change around me, “he explained. “But I’m only 19 miles from my house where I had the audacity to dream with my eyes open. I was only 19 miles from my home where I had the audacity to want to be more than my postal code. “
Mr. Sellers, Now An Attorney in Columbia, South Carolina, Also Praised Five Saguaro Students – Justice Hinds, Kingston Grant, Nayeli Lews, Carolyr Ir Experiences As Scottsdale Students, Calling their level Oratorship is reminiscent of President Obama and Dr. King.
He also reminded students of how Benjamin E. Mace, President of the Atlantic College of Morehaus, when King was a student there, defined “perfection”: “Whatever you do, try to do it so well that no one lives and no one lives A man is not dead and no man can still be born better. “
“That’s why it’s so important to understand that your destination is just great. That’s all King asks you, “said Mr. Sellers. “And what does this look like? This means that if you want to be a scientist, be George Washington Carver. If you want to be a singer, be Nina Simone. If you want to be a politician, be Nelson Mandela. If you want to be a doctor, be David Satcher. “
