Modern crime policy echoes enslaver narratives of Black people requiring perpetual control.

Evidence

Rather than focus on “root causes” of crime and violence, and the systems and structures that create and maintain inequality, politicians across the political spectrum capitulated to a narrative that segregationists had been selling decades earlier—and that enslavers had embraced before them: namely, that Black people were lazy, had to be forced to work, were inherently or culturally criminal, and thus must be subject to perpetual control. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 404

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Reinforces the reframing argument in its purest form: the punitive-control worldview is an unbroken line from enslavers through segregationists to modern politicians — a direct case of the origin story shaping ‘design vs deviation’.
• XREF: connects to: White criminals are mythologised as rogues where Black suspects are demonised as gangsters — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1751