Educated black elites were trained as a mediating restraint against mass violence

Evidence

Morgan’s juxtaposition of “wholesome public sentiment” with racial “public excitement” tempers the progressive image of the society’s work—capturing instead the connection between race management and its educational goals. Trained to think, act, even dissent in a rational rather than violent way, the Talented Tenth would propagate its values—ergo, the northern white Baptists—among the masses of black people. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 154

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Lays bare the mechanism of respectable-dissent training as race management — the load-bearing philosophical mechanism for the respectability coinage.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Black elites pursued the same education for racial empowerment whites sought for social control — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 236; Black elites opposed reparations while prioritizing education and voting grievances — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 715; Black elite status depended on the welfare of the whole black population (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Black elites opposed reparations while prioritizing education and voting grievances #expands (0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 715
• Black civil rights leaders saw domestic training as inseparable from race advancement. #corroborates (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 474
• Educated black leaders policed a cultural divide against folk religious practice #exemplifies (0.85) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 226
• Black elite status depended on the welfare of the whole black population #qualifies (0.80)
• Nonviolent mass action handed Black liberation back to bourgeois mediators #complicates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1282
• Hampton Institute’s vocational training was designed to teach Black acceptance of white supremacy #contradicts (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 651
• An educated propertied Black elite existed in the United States by 1903 #qualifies (0.80)
• Colonial martial law used mass violence as moral education of the colonized #expands (0.80) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 50
• Aggression toward sanctioned enemies is instilled through graded mastery training #corroborates (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 166