White observers recast migration as a nationalized Negro problem

Evidence

The Negro problem has moved north. Rather the Negro problem has spread from south to north…. With the black tide setting north, the southern Negro, formerly a docile tool, is demanding better pay, better food, and better treatment…. It’s a national problem now, instead of a sectional problem. And it has got to be solved. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 360

Categorization

• XREF: Contemporary white language framing black aspiration as a ‘problem to be solved’ prefigures later criminalization-of-Blackness arguments in the reparations case.