Self-hatred among Black women was blamed for Black men preferring White women

Evidence

And these Black assimilationist men—desiring to be White men, and constantly justifying that desire through imagining the wrongs of Black women—were quite numerous inside and outside of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s. Black men sought out White women because Black women’s intense self-rejection caused them to stop seeking male attention and let themselves go, as Black psychiatrists William Grier (father of comedian David Alan Grier) and Price Cobbs argued in an influential 1968 text, Black Rage. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1016

Categorization

• XREF: This is a direct instance of Kendi’s core scheme: assimilationist men justifying their desire for Whiteness by pathologizing Black women — connects to the reader’s task of placing arguments into segregationist/assimilationist/antiracist boxes. — connects to: White women who did their own antiracist homework formed equal bonds with blacks — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 202; Racist bodily and spatial stereotypes made black women accountable for the race’s fate — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 921