Black voting under stark choices is strategic time-buying, not endorsement

Evidence

My vote will probably not get me a job or a home or help me through school or prevent another Vietnam or a third world war, but it may keep me here long enough for me to see, and use, the turning of the tide—for the tide has got to turn. And…if Carter is reelected, it will be by means of the black vote, and it will not be a vote for Carter. It will be a coldly calculated risk, a means of buying time. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 500

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s own admission (‘I wish I had learned that lesson’) — voting as instrument, not redemption, which extends the after-times argument into a political prescription.