Tagged: unresponsive power order

“Like all aspirants to leadership among Negroes, Malcolm was bound by the conflicts and contradictions of Negro life. He was saddled by a truncated view of the society current among Afro-Americans and victimized by status needs and the lack of a relevant strategy needed to bring about a change. The single issue protest activity that Afro-Americans employ is predicated on the illusion of a concerned public opinion and a power order that is responsive, when in reality there is essentially an apathetic mass manipulated by an unsympathetic power circle.”

Source: Charles E. Wilson, “Leadership: Triumph in Leadership Tragedy.” Malcolm X: The Man and His Times. 1990. pg. 36.