Slavery’s enduring curse is the white-supremacy notion it instilled

Evidence

As the Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas once wrote: “The true curse of slavery is not what it did to the black man, but what it has done to the white man. For the existence of the institution produced the notion that the white man was of superior character, intelligence, and morality.” In order to get to the other side of reparations, we must dismantle that notion. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 470

Categorization

• XREF: Offers a white-psychology-of-privilege angle that counterpoints Brown’s strictly structural/legal argument — useful as a possible objection Brown must answer (that reparations is about white moral repair as much as black material harm).