Racist ideas were produced after the Black codes to justify them.

Evidence

Of course, lawmakers justified these new racist policies with racist ideas. They proclaimed that the Black codes—which forced Blacks into labor contracts, barred their movement, and regulated their family lives—were meant to restrain them because they were naturally lazy, lawless, and oversexed. “If you call this Freedom,” a Black veteran asked, “what do you call Slavery?” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 629

Categorization

• DEFINE: Tight, concrete instance of Kendi’s core inversion: policy (Black codes) first, then justifying ideas (laziness, lawlessness, oversexed stereotypes).