New racist ideas are continuously produced to replace discarded ones
Evidence
I am certainly not stating that there are no Americans in positions of power who have ever self-sacrificed or been educated or persuaded by Black uplift or facts to end racial disparities in their sphere of influence. But these courageous antiracist powerbrokers are more the exception than the rule. I am certainly not stating that generations of consumers of racist ideas have not been educated or persuaded to discard those racist ideas. But as Americans have discarded old racist ideas, new racist ideas have constantly been produced for their renewed consumption. That’s why the effort to educate and persuade away racist ideas has been a never-ending affair in America. That’s why educational persuasion will never bring into being an antiracist America. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1255
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated goal of testing the inversion: this paragraph is the production-side mechanism — racist ideas are manufactured, which is why educating consumers never ends the cycle.