by Rudolph

Lewis

Black "leadership" shrinks from its task,

avoiding at all costs the consequences of true leadership: "poverty,

imprisonment, flight, assassination." 

As a class, these businessmen,

educators, politicians, and other professionals flee from conflict with the

institutional racism that is the central fact of American history and

contemporary life. Rather than condone the self-serving "political

machinations" of Black Democrats whose fealty to the party yields no results

for the masses, the author urges African Americans to withhold their vote from

presidential elections and "take a new path, create a new rhetoric, support

more radical politics...until our liberation is achieved."