Rep. Bobby Rush Takes The High Road and Pledges To Serve In New Role

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Rep. Bobby Rush spoke about the future during  speech at the MMTC conference last week.  He recently lost to Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) in the race for telecom ranking member, he was elected to lead Energy and Power instead. Some of his speech touched on the campaign launched by the group Color of Change against him during his bid for the post on the telecom committee. According to an article on the hill.com he thanked the crowd for supporting him and questions the motives of Color Of Change  “You stepped up when I was being attacked, unfairly, by a group that says it is about change but that doesn’t know how to make real change,” he said. I have said for some time now that any group that is for change for African Americans needs to work at bringing us together and not tearing us down. I commented recently about this in regards to some other comments James Rucker made against David Honig on the huffingtonpost.    I asked the same question to James  now as I asked in that piece. Wouldn’t be it better to sit down and have dialogue with people like Rep. Rush  instead of tearing him down. That’s not change, that’s business as usual. If we want to motivate people of Color to have a new voice then we have to raise ourselves to a new standard. Change is not a one time event, it’s constant and  continually looking at how improve communications around issues to solve them for the greater good is a part of that, not pushing agendas. There is a lot more change that needs to happen from making sure everyone has equal access to the internet to raising a digitally literate generation out of the urban centers and we all have to work at it together, not tear each other down. So James if  your group is truly going to be about change for people of color then i leave with the quote from the movie Notoious Where BIG says ” We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves! “