Black liberalism seeks inclusion without closing the value gap

Evidence

The election of Barack Obama should be understood as the logical conclusion of a form of black politics that has guided much of African American life since the dawn of the twentieth century. You can’t draw a straight line from the founding of the NAACP in 1909 and the National Urban League in 1910 to Obama’a political ascendance; there are real differences between these moments and a lot happened in between. What connects them, however, is the underlying political philosophy of black liberalism: a view that takes broad-base inclusion of black people into American life as its aim without closing the value gap. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 410

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the precise definition the reader needs: black liberalism aims at broad inclusion precisely while leaving the value gap intact — the core of the trap argument.
• XREF: connects to: Opposing affirmative action remains the respectable vehicle for resisting black competitive success