Black elite status depended on the welfare of the whole black population

Evidence

King made his way out of the good graces of assimilationist America that year. Assimilationists still wanted to keep him in the doubly conscious dreams of 1963, just as they had wanted to keep Du Bois in the doubly conscious souls of 1903. But King no longer saw any real strategic utility for the persuasion techniques that assimilationists adored, or for the desegregation efforts they championed. He now realized that desegregation had primarily benefited Black elites, leaving millions wallowing in the wrenching poverty that had led to their urban rebellions. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1008 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

These three historical moments—the black liberal compact of 1946, the strategy of deracialization of 1976, and the Jesse Jackson campaigns of 1984 and 1988—illustrate how black liberalism became the dominant, if not the only, political game in town. The triumph of black liberalism happened even as the material conditions of black life deteriorated and as the institutional life of black America collapsed. In other words, traditional and now post-black liberals have been on watch in all phases of black life—as elected representatives in statehouses and in Congress, as mayors, as protest leaders, as members of long-standing civil rights organizations, and now as president—at the very moment black America is suffering a slow and agonizing death. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 475 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

But this proposal “frees the slave and ignores the negro,” Phillips snapped. The sizable free biracial community of New Orleans snapped, too, demanding voting rights. These biracial activists separated “their struggle from that of the Negroes,” said an observer. “In their eyes, they were nearer to the white man; they were more advanced than the slave in all respects.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 604 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Educated black elites were trained as a mediating restraint against mass violence — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 154; Desegregation primarily benefited Black elites, not poor Black communities — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1008; Lynching functioned as a wealth ceiling on black economic success — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 306 (+5 more)

Related

• Desegregation primarily benefited Black elites, not poor Black communities (similarity 0.84)
• Black liberal dominance coincided with the worsening of Black material conditions (similarity 0.81)
• Free biracial elites historically distanced themselves from enslaved Black people. (similarity 0.80)
• Black elites opposed reparations while prioritizing education and voting grievances (similarity 0.79)
• Black liberal leadership coincided with declining material conditions for black Americans (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Desegregation primarily benefited Black elites, not poor Black communities #contradicts (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1008
• Black liberal dominance coincided with the worsening of Black material conditions #contradicts (0.72) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 475
• Free biracial elites historically distanced themselves from enslaved Black people. #complicates (0.72) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 604
• The unified black coalition concealed internal inequalities and tensions #complicates (0.72) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 151
• Lynching functioned as a wealth ceiling on black economic success #complicates (0.70) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 306
• Black rebellion triggered mandatory work requirements for welfare recipients #contradicts (0.70) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1002
• Black communities can act as autonomous political forces rather than class fractions #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2199