The young generation rejected bargaining with white America entirely

Evidence

It is the sons and daughters of the beleaguered bourgeoisie—supported, in the most extraordinary fashion, by those old, work-worn men and women who were known, only yesterday, as the “country niggers”—who have begun a revolution in the consciousness of this country which will inexorably destroy nearly all that we now think of as concrete and indisputable. These young people have never believed in the American image of the Negro and have never bargained with the Republic, and now they never will….There is no longer any basis on which to bargain. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 219

Categorization

• XREF: ‘There is no longer any basis on which to bargain’ — the terminal point of the failed-reckoning arc; pairs with Glaude’s thesis about the ‘after times.’