Even model black business success could not shield freedmen from white supremacy

Evidence

Tommie was doing well by doing good. He believed that blacks should focus on practical and business matters rather than politics. For example, he made sure people in his community could provide for themselves and helped numerous people become postal carriers. Tommie Moss was seemingly the perfect black man. His expression of his newfound freedom eventually hit the brick wall of white supremacy, because not even his perfection could protect him. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 293

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the argument from Whiteness of Wealth that individual striving cannot outrun structural racism — complements the repair/structural focus of this book.