Calls for Black unity misdiagnosed a division that did not actually exist

Evidence

The calls for Black unity resounded in Philadelphia as they had two years earlier among those million men in Washington, DC—as if Black people had a unity problem, as if this disunity was contributing to the plight of the race, and as if other races did not have sellouts and backstabbers. The nation’s most unified race behind a single political party was never the most politically divided race. But, as always, racist ideas never needed to account for reality. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1161

Categorization

• CANDY: Tight, tweetable punchline: ‘The nation’s most unified race behind a single political party was never the most politically divided race.’