Each era of racial progress was limited by asserting white supremacy anew

Evidence

At every crucial moment in our nation’s history, when there have been fundamental changes in how we’ve dealt with race, white people asserted the value gap and limited the scope of change. The powerful ideals of the American Revolution, which challenged the authority of monarchs and insisted on the principles of freedom and equality in the context of democratic institutions, were reconciled with the institution of racial slavery. People could talk of freedom and liberty and hold black slaves. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 80

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• XREF: The ‘pull back toward the status quo’ pattern rhymes with the reader’s milgrom institutions notes on equilibria that resist change. — connects to: Repeated Catholic episcopal statements against racism over thirty years changed little. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 204