Antiracist leaders can turn to racist ideas when cornered by power

Evidence

Du Bois and Garvey represented a larger and nastier battle within Black America among assimilationists, antiracists, and separatists, between the classes, between natives and West Indians, between nationalists and Pan-Africanists, and between light skins and dark skins. … His antiracist affirmations had turned to blisteringly racist ridicule. Black people were “the most careless and indifferent people in the world,” Garvey proclaimed to thousands at Madison Square Garden. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 833

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Kendi’s claim that racist ideas are deployed strategically as tools of self-interest — here against internal rivals — not only by whites against Blacks.