CHUMPS: When Blacks
Voted 80 Percent Dem, Malcolm X Called Them ‘Chumps’
When blacks gave 80 percent of their vote to
the Democratic Party in 1964, black activist Malcolm X called them “political
chumps.”
White voters, X said, “are so evenly divided
that every time they vote, the race is so close they have to go back and count
the votes all over again. Which means that any bloc, any minority that has a
bloc that sticks together is in a strategic position. Either way you go, that’s
who gets it.”
Yet Democrats, said Malcolm X, failed to
deliver on a promised and much anticipated new civil rights bill, knowing the
party could still count on their blind support in the next election.
“You put them first,” said Malcolm X, “and
they put you last. ‘Cause you’re a chump. A political chump! … Any time you
throw your weight behind a political party that controls two-thirds of the
government, and that party can’t keep the promise that it made to you during
election time, and you are dumb enough to walk around continuing to identify
yourself with that party — you’re not only a chump but you’re a traitor to your
race.”
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