Failed racist ideas fell back on anti-Black violence in 1919

Evidence

Since racist ideas were not working on New Negroes, violence came rushing forth in at least twenty-five US cities, as if to remind the assertive New Negro of White rule. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 820

Categorization

  • XREF: Supports the core inversion: when persuasion-based ideas stop controlling Black behavior, the racist regime escalates to force — evidence that policy/violence, not ideas, is the load-bearing layer. — connects to: 1919 British labor leaders saw working-class education as fueling revolt against authority — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1666