The demand for a black spokesperson itself grows out of white supremacy

Evidence

All of this grows out of white supremacy: the idea that black folk need someone or some organization to represent them to white people, and the demand for a black spokesperson becomes the form of black political leadership. We need our Moses, our messiah. Here the charismatic leader, accountable to no one, ends up reproducing the very practice and habits that disfigured black democratic life in the first place. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 486

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies one root of the ‘racial habits’ concept: the white-supremacist presumption that black people need caretaker representatives rather than self-governing democratic practice.