Does SCLC want to bureaucratize hip-hop too?

This is a short announcement about an upcoming forum in DC that the SCLC is hosting on Hip-hop with 60 different hip-hop generation activists. The SCLC, originally an organization initiated by Martin Luther King to combat poverty and racism, is no longer what it was. Once a mass organization, it is now an organization which panders to the interests of the black ruling elite.

Should we even validate them by participating in such a forum? I feel confident that the activists can appropriately discuss the circumstances that face us today, but its doubtful whether they will be able to articulate the real content today (especially in these times of low activity among the population). Could this be the SCLC attempt to draw in certain elements of the hip-hop generation to help stultify any potential movement? I don't think it will, but that is neither here nor there.

We shouldn't be appealing to defunct groups like the SCLC and their ideas on social change and what's relevant and good. They signal the death of a black workers movement by confounding black power with the power of black folks to join the establishment.

Check these out.

Hip-Hop Summit Across the Ages
from the Washington Post

And for my New Orleans peeps, this is an editorial published last month in the Times-Picayune. This is what protests have come to?