Pre-Cold-War black politics linked domestic struggle to global anti-colonialism

Evidence

Of course, black politics hasn’t always been tethered to the American Idea. Prior to the advent of the Cold War, black activists imagined black politics in domestic and global terms. They envisioned the struggle of black people in America as intimately and philosophically linked to struggles of other oppressed people around the world. The American Idea was given the lie by its connection to the unfreedom enforced upon much of the globe by colonialism and imperialism. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with current Democratic-loyalty framing; useful counterexample showing the trap is historically contingent, not inherent.