As David Horowitz remembers from his childhood when Black singer Paul Robeson became a hero figure to American Communists like him and his parents:
"Robeson's [Communist] presence as a god in our midst seems prophetic to me now. In my radical generation, blacks would replace the proletariat in our imaginations as the Chosen People who were going to lead the rest of us to the Promised Land."
Things seem to be going according to plan.
It is very important to recognize the extent to which the movement for Negro equality and civil rights was infiltrated by Communists. In fact, the movement was to a great extent a Communist front used to recruit dissatisfied Negros and liberal whites into Communist ranks.