No one epitomized Black respectability more than Colin Powell...

But Powell’s views also contained a kernel of his appeal to Black personhood. He was the Black man who played by all the rules White people demanded of colored folk and benefited materially and politically. He spent the last decade of his life feted by corporate America, sitting on the board of the tech company Salesforce. In his time before leaving public office, he sat at the base of the throne, giving council to a chain of presidents. It was as if Marcus Garvey — Jamaican-born and brimming with potential — submitted to the system instead of demanding his mighty race rise up with independence.
Colin Powell Was the Living Myth of Integration
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Adebayo Adeniran
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Oct 21, 2021
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No one epitomized Black respectability more than Colin Powell...
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