Racist ideas are produced to justify the policy alienation of Black nonvoters

Evidence

As their alienation grew, the racist ideas about them grew. Black voters looked down on Black nonvoters as inferior. … Black nonvoters—or third-party Black voters like Angela Davis—clearly were not being driven to the polls by fear of Republican victories. They seemed to be only willing to vote for politicians, as Angela Davis began to realize. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1073

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that ‘as alienation grew, the racist ideas about them grew’ is the crux inversion applied to voter participation — but the passage is thin on what specifically drove nonvoting. Worth chasing the book’s fuller treatment.
• XREF: connects to: Literacy tests and poll taxes were written to let local officials disenfranchise black voters — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2063; Segregationist warnings framed growing black voting power as the threat — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 94