Free Blacks learned their racist ideas about Africa from White Americans

Evidence

American-born descendants of Africa judged the continent based on the standards they had learned from the very people who were calling them inferior and trying to kick them out of the United States. Africans in America had received their knowledge of Africa and their racist ideas from White Americans. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 393

Categorization

• XREF: Directly exemplifies Kendi’s thesis that racist ideas are supplied by the powerful to make sense of their own exploitative policy - here the knowledge flows down even to the victims. — connects to: Irish immigrants learned anti-Black hatred upon landing in America, not at home — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 6