What would Malcolm X say about who was included in the actual social contract of 20th century America?
His point was that the politicians in the predominantly black areas of North America were not controlled by black people, and that economic institutions in these areas were not controlled by black people. In other words, even in the North where black people had a legal right to register to vote and to vote, and the legal right to organize, they did not have power corresponding to their numbers. They were not actually a part of the actual social contract. The power structure had effectively persuaded them that they could not be politically powerful or personally significant, except maybe as entertainers. What kind of social contract might Malcolm X have favored? (Read between the lines: 661-63) He probably would have favored a two-level social contract. The black community must come together independent of the white-dominated power structure, that is, independent of the white social contract. Then, having asserted their power based on their own strengths, the rest of society would have
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