By the later 1940s, the black community was slowly begin- ning to catch up to Mac's ideas. It was starting to realize that the organization never had and never would pick black candi- dates even if the area became 99 percent black, so black citi- zens would have to organize and fight for candidates of their own. The white power brokers were holding on to every- thing for themselves, throwing out just a few morsels — never even one important job to make the community feel that black people, too, were competent.
