The myth of Negro inferiority was the nineteenth century’s greatest injury to Black people

Evidence

“[P]erhaps the greatest wrong inflicted on the Negro race in the nineteenth century was the successful building up of a myth that the Negro was inherently inferior to other races” (ibid. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2303

Categorization

• CANDY: A single potent, quotable idea — the most harmful thing done to Black people was not an act but the fabrication of a myth of inferiority.