Racist prediction framing makes Black political success read as tyranny.

Evidence

Since the very presence of Blacks was deemed to be tyrannical, racists would only see tyranny no matter what Black voters and politicians accomplished in the coming years. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 653

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compact version of Kendi’s core mechanism: when the group itself is framed as tyranny, outcomes cannot falsify the prediction — a self-sealing racist logic that generalizes beyond race.
• XREF: connects to: Segregationist warnings framed growing black voting power as the threat — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 94