Sublime

The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

for one’s children.” Norton provided no empirical evidence to substantiate her position that certain “ghetto” Blacks were deficient in any of these values.

out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.

Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named, feroci

racist White people unleash on Black people