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    Simply because one is Black or Latino or lesbian or gay or whatever does not guarantee the person’s fidelity to a body of politics that empowers the particular constituency that they supposedly represent. The number of black elected officials has risen from 100 in 1964 to more than 9000 today. The number of African Americans who were in congress 30 years ago was about five; today it is over 40, an 800 percent increase. But have Blacks experienced an 800 percent increase in real power? It hasn’t happened. So, I think the emphasis of this liberal notion of social change by working solely within the established electoral system is just fatally flawed.


    — Manning Marable

    #real-power #change



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    Marable's biography of Malcolm X concluded that Malcolm X exaggerated his early criminal career and engaged in a homosexual relationship with a white businessman. Marable served on the Board of Directors for the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) a non-profit coalition of public figures working to utilize hip-hop as an agent for social change.

    Marable founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. Marable authored several texts and was active in progressive political causes.

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