Paternalist segregationists claimed separation would preserve Black uplift.
Evidence
Whites must continue the elevating legacy of slavery in a nicely segregated free labor society, Haygood instructed. How could wise Whites teach unwise Blacks if the races were separated? Haygood disregarded the contradiction. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 701
Categorization
- DEFINE: Haygood’s position is textbook assimilationism (Blacks need White tutelage) awkwardly fused with segregation — a useful boundary case for the reader’s three-way scheme.