Malcolm X was not Conservative.
MLK was not Conservative.
Conservatism is a two part ideal here in the West: economic liberalization, and social conservatism. Neither Malcolm not Michael was for either of them, and its not just their linkings to Labour Rights movements, Communist and Socialist organizations, leaders and countries, or their vehement anti-imperialism/anti-colonialism, they were both very clearly Left-wing.
And a good chunk of Black men may identify with some bullshyt composite of misogynistic, bootstrap nonsense, but that doesn't make them conservative.
Majority black men are conservative, only somebody in a liberal college bubble would argue against this.
Barks like a dog, walks like a dog, but it's not a dog?
Majority of Black Americans are social conservatives...but we prioritize civil rights over everything...
MLK and Malcolm X were definitely social conservatives and Malcolm X when he was with the NOI was definitely a conservative...and thecoli is full of conservative ideology...
Anyway here is a good article on the overrall political ideological of African Americans
Why are African-Americans such loyal Democrats when they are so ideologically diverse?
Today’s lopsided black vote for the Democratic Party is often tied to 1964 Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater’s vote against the Civil Rights Act. This was certainly a significant event, but the story starts earlier.
Previous research has found that when the parties’ positions on civil rights were essentially indistinguishable between 1920 and the mid-1940s, blacks’ party loyalties was also split. In fact, the NAACP
declared in 1926 that, “Our political salvation and our social survival lie in our absolute independence of party allegiance in politics …”
But by the mid-1930s, blacks voted increasingly for Democrats — even though their party identification didn’t change — because of the Democratic Party’s progressive economic and civil rights policies, such as the extension of New Deal programs to blacks and the desegregation of the military in the late 1940s.
Despite this history, there is still no clean alignment between how blacks describe their political ideology and which candidates they vote for. As recently as 2012,
studies show that 47 percent of blacks identify as liberal and 45 percent as conservative, but 93 percent voted for the reelection of Barack Obama.
