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New to nonsite Articles Issue #41 Bayard Rustin: The Panthers Couldn’t Save Us Then Either BY Adolph Reed, Jr. Rustin saw politics through a concrete, strategic lens, which provided a perspective that has become increasingly remote from both academic and activist experience. Indeed, as demonstrated in the essays selected here, he explicitly rejected the moralistic discourse that he saw undergirding much of Black Power and New Left politics, as well as the tendency to reduce the sources of…