White acceptance of exceptional Black artists leaves White racial opinions unchanged

Evidence

A Black professorial character in Nigger Heaven claims, in a dig at media suasion, that the advance of Black artists in White circles will not change White opinions: “Because the white people they meet will regard them as geniuses, in other words, exceptions.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 844

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the assimilationist-vs-antiracist distinction: token exceptions are the mechanism that lets assimilationism coexist with ongoing racism — echoes the reader’s goal of testing Kendi’s scheme against specific cases. — connects to: Structural marginalisation persists even when a sidelined artist shares the mainstream stage — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 102