Producers of racist ideas defended racist policies regardless of factual truth

Evidence

Congress issued a report in the spring of 1872 condemning southern violence, but it only went so far. The report even adopted the segregationists’ position, arguing that Blacks were the cause. The violence, the report explained, was a response to the “bad legislation, official incompetency, and corruption” of Black politicians. It hardly mattered that southern White politicians sat in the overwhelming majority of the powerful and corruptible positions. The truth hardly mattered to the producers of these racist ideas who were seeking to defend the racist policies of buckling Black political power. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 673

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates Kendi’s core inversion: racist ideas (blaming Black politicians) produced after racist policy (buckling Black political power) — connects to his stated thesis and the ignorance-to-hate-to-discrimination reversal he tests.