National black political figures have failed to respond adequately to black suffering

Evidence

What has become crystal clear over these past few years, at least to me, is that business as usual isn’t sufficient; that the typical black characters on the national scene have to be called out for what they have failed to do and say in the face of what has happened and is happening in black America. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 619

Categorization

• DEFINE: Part of Glaude’s case for why black liberal politics, epitomized by mainstream black leaders, must be rejected.