Antiracist reformers are marginalized in their lifetimes and demonized after death.

Evidence

Las Casas tried to close the door on African slavery, after opening it for so many Spanish slaveholders. He failed. A powerful reformer labeled a radical extremist in his last days—like every antiracist who came after him—Las Casas was condemned in Spain after his death, and his works were practically banned there. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 62

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s goal of tracing how racist policy precedes and outlives reformist ideas; the pattern of antiracists being exiled mirrors modern marginalization of antiracist voices.