Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

by Ibram X. Kendi

Already, the American mind was accomplishing that indispensable intellectual activity of someone consumed with racist ideas: individualizing White negativity and generalizing Black negativity. Negative behavior by any Black person became proof of what was wrong with Black people, while negative behavior by any White person only proved what was wrong with that person.

Indindividuality of whites vs generalization of blacks.

They naturally craved superior Whiteness. Black women possessed a “temper hot and lascivious, making no scruple to prostitute themselves to the Europeans for a very slender profit, so great is their inclination to white

All Horse shit

Elizabeth Key’s

Remember Her name

To justify Black enslavement, Barbados planters actually “preferred” the polygenesis theory over the curse theory of Ham,

Why would it matter?

studied under the newly hired twenty-six-year-old Enlightenment intellectual William Small of Scotland, who taught that reason, not religion, should command human affairs, a lesson that would inform Jefferson’s views about government.

So much for the current attempts of some factions to reinterpret the founders' separation of church and state.

Phillis Wheatley had auditioned and proven the capability of Black humanity to the assimilationist scions of Boston. But unlike the publishers, these men did not have much to lose.

any idea that suggests that Black people as a group are inferior, that something is wrong with Black people, is a racist idea.

Exactly .

Black behavior—not the wrenching housing and economic racism—was blamed for these impoverished Black enclaves.

And it still is. Why do people find it so hard to acknowledge this? Never mind. I already know the answer.

Garrison loathed the shows and the literature, and he loathed those politicians, too. And yet he also crafted Black people as the social problem.

No accountability. Still.

“Do you find yourself mistaken now?” Gray had flatly asked. “Was not Christ crucified?” Turner replied.

Good point, Nat.

Racist ideas, they were saying, were only in the eyes of the beholder, and only the holders of racist ideas were responsible for the release of those ideas.

Yet another example of a basic truth racists refuse to recognize.