The lie includes stereotypes debasing black people as essentially inferior.

Evidence

One set of lies debases black people; examples stretch from the writings of the Founding Fathers to The Bell Curve. According to these lies, black people are essentially inferior, less human than white people, and therefore deserving of their particular station in American life. We see these lies every day in the stereotypes that black people are lazy, dishonest, sexually promiscuous, prone to criminal behavior, and only seeking a handout from big government. Baldwin made the Howard students promise him that they would never believe the lies the country told about them, because he knew that the lie would do irreparable harm to their souls, as it had done to the country. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 83

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spells out the first constituent set of the lie — the debasement narrative.