Democrats framed the Fifteenth Amendment as establishing Black supremacy

Evidence

Democrats tried to block the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, demeaning it as a “nigger superiority bill” meant to establish horrific and barbaric Black supremacy. They had no luck. The amendment was ratified on February 3, 1870. Black people from Boston to Richmond to Vicksburg, Mississippi, planned grand celebrations after the ratification. For their keynote speaker, several communities invited a living legend. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 662

Categorization

• XREF: Demonstrates Kendi’s own inversion pattern: racist ‘supremacy’ rhetoric deployed by Democrats to preserve their own power interest, not flowing from abstract ignorance. Fits the reader’s causal inversion test.