Coded racial claims let one condemn Black people without the racist label

Evidence

Intellectuals and politicians were producing theories—like welfare recipients are lazy, or inner cities are dangerous, or poor people are ignorant, or one-parent households are immoral—that allowed Americans to call Black people lazy, dangerous, and immoral without ever saying “Black people,” which allowed them to deflect charges of racism. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1080

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: a taxonomy of the coded racial claim — the grammatical-linguistic work of removing the racial subject while keeping the racial predicate.
• XREF: Reinforces the ongoing project of placing contemporary race arguments into Kendi’s three-way scheme. — connects to: Black-on-black oppression escapes condemnation by being misread as not-racism — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 321