Black soldiers enforcing White settlement in the West mirrored White violence against Blacks.

Evidence

As southern Black citizens were killed over the next few decades to make way for Jim Crow, Buffalo Soldiers killed indigenous communities in the West to make way for White settlers. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 641

Categorization

• SEED: The tragic irony of Black troops being redeployed to kill indigenous communities while southern Whites killed Black citizens is a potent through-line for a longer essay on racialized complicity.