Racial stereotypes about welfare and affirmative action persisted through the late 1970s

Evidence

But the new plantation genre of lazy Black rioters who knocked down Whites’ livelihoods—the poor through welfare, the upwardly mobile through affirmative action—remained in the wind in the late 1970s. Thus, as much as antiracist Black Americans loved their roots, racist White Americans loved—on and off screen—their other Rocky, with his unrelenting fight for the law and order of racism. And then, in 1976, their Rocky ran for president. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1060

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘lazy Black rioter’ stereotype pair (welfare for poor, affirmative action for upwardly mobile) echoes the reader’s standing interest in placing arguments in Kendi’s three-way scheme—this is pure segregationist framing. — connects to: Evangelical social concern in 1973 explicitly included women’s equality and anti-racism. — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 78
• SEED: Angle: how the same racist trope gets retooled for different class targets (welfare vs. affirmative action) as a rhetorical device of segregationist discourse.