Original sentence: Because of these positions, Rustin was criticized as a "sell-out" by many of his former colleagues in the civil rights movement, especially those connected to grassroots organizing.He also argued that a particular danger facing the African-American community was the appeal of identity politics, particularly the rise of "Black power" which he dismissed as a fantasy of middle-class black people that repeated the political and moral errors of previous black nationalists, while alienating the white allies needed by the African-American community.Historian Randall Kennedy has noted that while Rustin had a general "disdain of nationalism" he had a "very different attitude toward Jewish nationalism" and was "unflaggingly supportive of Zionism.In Rustin's view, the needs of the African-American community demanded a shift in political strategy, where the blacks would need to strengthen their political alliance with mostly white unions and other organizations (churches, synagogues, etc.They charged that he was lured by the material comforts that came with a less radical and more professional type of activism.While biographer John D'Emilio rejects these assertions, Randall Kennedy has written that descriptions of Rustin as "a bought man" are "at least partly true
Edited sentence: A particular danger facing the African-American community was the chimera of identity politics, particularly the rise of "Black power" which Rustin dismissed as a fantasy of middle-class black people that repeated the political and moral errors of previous black nationalists, while alienating the white allies needed by the African-American community.The needs of the African-American community demanded a shift in political strategy, where the blacks would need to strengthen their political alliance with mostly white unions and other organizations (churches, synagogues, etc