That he would, "seek the empowerment of people from underneath", sorts well with the likes of associates such as Al Sharpton, whom he currently champions for President, and Antonio Villaraigsa, who can tie his loss in the recent LA mayoral race to having been up to his lying neck in Clinton's pardon of cocaine trafficker Carlos Vignalli.
I'll sympathize that he's currently struggling with the uncertainty of prostate cancer, and views with "great anxiety" his own mortality in as grand an intellectual fashion as anything in his life. But being one of those whom he so loosely labeled a "conservative", I'd then be seen by him, as he also described, as either seeing or not seeing? the difference between, "Black grief and Black grievances." In this he seemed, as in Shakespeare (whom he also quoted once or twice), "Too cunning to be understood."