As these two instances show, black voters are savvy enough to understand that ideological purity is an enemy to effective politics. Commitment to a politics that privileges ideological preferences over the good of the masses of blacks is the ultimate subversion of black political power. It is also the ultimate betrayal of the spirit of Baldwin and his compatriots in that room—all of whom understood that it was Jerome Smith, more than they, who stood for the interests of the black masses.
This is fucking stupid
