The value gap shapes white Americans’ attitudes too, not only Black Americans’.

Evidence

My hometown is no less American than his, yet Ryan’s American Idea cannot quite countenance the existence of it. His view of the American Idea is unsullied by our racial history and practices; it is set apart from how we actually live our lives. (He even ignores the fact that members of his own community formed a Ku Klux Klan chapter.) And when I say we, I don’t just mean African Americans. The attitudes of Ryan and his white neighbors in Janesville are just as surely shaped by the value gap as are those of my black neighbors in Moss Point. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 90

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Extends the value gap concept: Glaude insists it constrains whites’ perceptions too, echoing the ‘racial habits’ idea that cuts both ways.

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• The value gap shapes white and black attitudes alike (similarity 0.96)
• The value gap is the national premise that white people matter more than others (similarity 0.84)
• Black liberalism sees racism as a fixable gap between creed and practice (similarity 0.80)
• The value gap rigs democratic outcomes toward racial inequality regardless of policy form (similarity 0.80)
• Racial habits are unthinking daily actions that sustain the value gap. (similarity 0.80)
• The black ghetto exemplifies the value gap produced by white supremacy (similarity 0.80)
• America’s democratic claims are shadowed by a founding belief that white lives matter more. (similarity 0.80)
• Black lives occupy the gap between American ideals and practice (similarity 0.80)
• Racial habits sustain the value gap and can change only when disrupted (similarity 0.80)
• White and black Americans hold systematically divergent beliefs about racial inequality (similarity 0.78)
• Racial habits that demean Black people also damage white people and drive public policy (similarity 0.78)
• Closing the value gap is the precondition for overcoming racism, materialism, and militarism (similarity 0.78)
• Closing the value gap requires shifting views of government, black people, and national priorities (similarity 0.78)
• Racial inequality is constitutive of Americanness, not an aberration from its ideals (similarity 0.78)
• Democracy’s claims have always been shadowed by the belief that white lives matter more (similarity 0.78)