Supremacist ideology obscures colonial violence by inverting the economic dependence of settlers on natives.

Evidence

The violent event of colonial aggression and its corollary of “Indian” slavery had already been transmuted in Franklin’s neo-nativistic “American” mind into a relationship of supplication secured by an economic rationale; indeed, the dependence of “new Comers” on natives already reversed. The curtain of supremacist ideology had by now begun its descent on American thought, obscuring from the historically unconscious generations of descendants of colonialists and later immigrants the oppressive violence and exploitation interwoven in the structure of the republic. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 414

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The ‘curtain of supremacist ideology’ as an active obscuring force over historical memory is the analytic engine of the whole book — reader sits with this for a long time.