Black elites opposed reparations while prioritizing education and voting grievances

Evidence

Black elites, joining their White peers, typically ignored or castigated reparations bills. Economic injustices affecting low-income Blacks took a back seat to education and voting injustices among Black elites. “The most learned negroes,” Callie House scolded, “have less interest in their race than any other negro as many of them are fighting against the welfare of their race.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 715

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s core goal: Black elites’ class interests drove them to favor assimilationist (education/voting) remedies over material redistribution — a case of self-interest shaping which racial policies are championed. — connects to: Educated black elites were trained as a mediating restraint against mass violence — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 154
• DEEPTHINKING: A genuine counterpoint to any simple ‘racist ideas vs antiracist ideas’ reading — the same race can hold class positions that align them against basic material restitution, and Callie House names it with brutal precision.