Assimilationist Blacks recycled racist ideas against other non-Whites

Evidence

Every dollar taken from southern treasuries heightened southern reliance on cheap labor. President Grant figured that maybe if Blacks had somewhere else to go, planters would value Black labor more. (Actually, planters did value cheap labor, and they used their guns and racist ideas to keep Black labor as cheap as possible.) In early 1870, Grant began a presidential push for the annexation of the Dominican Republic to provide a haven for “the entire colored population of the United States, should it choose to emigrate.” He sent Frederick Douglass on a fact-finding mission in 1871. The DR could not only become a Black haven, the impressed Douglass reported, but by “transplanting within her tropical borders the glorious institutions” of the United States, the Blacks who moved there could uplift the impoverished and backward Dominican people. Douglass seemed unaware that he was recycling against Dominicans the very same racist ideas that had been used against African Americans. And if the US institutions were so “glorious,” then why did African Americans need a foreign haven? — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 670

Categorization

• XREF: This is a new axis of Kendi’s scheme: assimilationists exporting racist hierarchy against foreign peoples, extending the reader’s three-way framework into colonial/foreign-policy applications.
• QUESTION: Douglass recycling racist tropes against Dominicans is a striking test case — does Kendi classify Douglass as assimilationist for this move, and how does the reader square this with Douglass’s antiracist work at home?