Segregationist preachers patronized Black audiences while demanding gratitude for past white charity

Evidence

Evidently imagining that there might be some Black listeners with whom he had any credibility, Jones added, “After the Civil War the colored people wanted to build their schools and churches, and white friends made financial contribution to the building of these schools and churches. Back in those days it was not easy when the white people were paying most of the taxes—don’t you colored friends forget that when you are inclined to turn away from your white friends.” — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 248

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black racists recited racist talking points for financial and occupational favor — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1174; White self-congratulation on racial progress demands black gratitude. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America…, 562; Educated black people are accused of ingratitude toward their white benefactors — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 134 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• White self-congratulation on racial progress demands black gratitude. #corroborates (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 562
• Educated black people are accused of ingratitude toward their white benefactors #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 134
• Postracialists reward Black uplift rhetoric and punish Black critique of White discrimination #corroborates (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1232
• Black racists recited racist talking points for financial and occupational favor #qualifies (0.75) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1174
• Educated blacks who adopt Western political thought are branded ingrates by their benefactors #corroborates (0.75)
• Mississippi segregationists’ racism was sincerely rooted in their Baptist theology, not hypocrisy #contradicts (0.75) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 117