Postwar land grants to Whites were framed as deserved freedom, to Blacks as handouts

Evidence

These Savannah Blacks—their peers across the South—were only asking for the same from rebel Confederate communities. But racist ideas rationalized the racist policy. White settlers on government-provided land were deemed receivers of American freedom; Black people, receivers of American handouts. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 617

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete instance of Kendi’s central thesis — policy (land distribution) precedes and produces the justifying idea (Black recipients are handout-takers).