Segregationists and assimilationists converged in condemning rioters while differing on causes

Evidence

On March 9, 2013, two New York police officers shot sixteen-year-old Kimani Gray seven times. The violent protests that followed Gray’s death—and others—provoked another round of debates between the postracial segregationists, who condemned the violent “thugs”; the antiracists, who explained the racist source of the violence; and the assimilationists, who condemned the violent “thugs” and pointed out the discriminatory sources of the violence. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1237

Categorization

• DEFINE: A live application of Kendi’s three-way scheme: each position’s typical response to police-killing protests laid out compactly — note how both segregationists and assimilationists condemn the ‘thugs’ but diverge on causes.