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What role did William Lloyd Garrison play in the abolition of slavery? How did Garrison\u2014though unknowingly and unintentionally\u2014perpetuate racist ideas<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though an advocate of total and immediate abolition of slavery, William Lloyd Garrison harbored a problematic stance towards Black people. Like many of his time, Garrison believed that Black people need white people to save them from slavery, lacking the capacity to break free themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s why Garrison’s views were racist, according to Ibram X. Kendi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

White Saviors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the counterintuitive insights of Kendi\u2019s book is that it\u2019s possible to oppose one form of racism while perpetuating another\u2014as was the case with Garrison\u2019s abolitionist movement, which was popular from the 1830s until the 1865 end of slavery. William Lloyd Garrison believed that Black people needed white people to rescue them from slavery and uplift their minds and spirits.<\/strong> Garrison argued that enslaved Black people should wait for white and free Black abolitionists to effect a political solution to slavery. (Yet, as Kendi notes, during the Civil War, thousands of Black people required no help to free themselves by running from their plantations, volunteering for the Union army, and so on.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Garrison\u2019s view demonstrates what might today be called a white savior complex\u2014a phenomenon that arises when white people attempt to help people from other racial groups in ways that reflect an attitude of superiority<\/a>. While there\u2019s nothing wrong with helping others, experts explain that the problem arises when white people assume that they have knowledge, skills, or resources that the affected group lacks and when they don\u2019t take into account the wants and needs of the people they\u2019re helping. Not only is white saviorism racist and insulting, it can make problems worse<\/a> by convincing saviors they\u2019ve solved a problem when they haven\u2019t fixed the underlying inequities that caused the problem in the first place.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garrison wasn\u2019t the only abolitionist to take a paternalistic stance toward the Black people he meant to help. Kendi points to Harriet Beecher Stowe\u2019s 1852 novel Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/em>, which had immense influence on the abolitionist movement. Kendi argues that the novel introduced the new racist stereotype of the extraordinarily spiritual Black person<\/strong> in Uncle Tom, a man weak of body but strong of soul. He explains that Uncle Tom played into preexisting stereotypes of weak Black men unfit to lead themselves\u2014let alone a family, political movement, or nation. Portrayals like this reinforced the idea that Black people needed white people to come to their rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: This spiritual-Black-people stereotype persists in the contemporary fiction trope of the \u201cmagical negro\u201d\u2014a stock character defined by his or her good sense, folk wisdom, and mystical powers<\/a> (which may include healing, clairvoyance, or a special connection to God). Not only does the magical negro reinforce racist stereotypes, but it also marginalizes Black characters by reducing them to sidekicks, guides, or advisers to a white protagonist. Moreover, some scholars warn that when we depict Black people as possessing superhuman traits, we may raise the chances that police resort to violence<\/a> when interacting with Black citizens.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imbruted By Slavery<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Part of the justification for this paternalistic approach was the idea that slavery had <\/strong>turned <\/em><\/strong>Black people into the savages it claimed them to be<\/strong>. Kendi argues that this is classic assimilationist logic: Whereas enslavers argued that Black people were inherently <\/em>inferior, many emancipationists argued that Black people had been made <\/em>inferior by slavery\u2019s abuses. Kendi points out that both <\/em>of these stances are racist because both proclaim that Black people are inferior (they differ only in their assessment of who\u2019s at fault for that inferiority). Yet, against Black protests to the contrary, many emancipationists clung to the idea that slavery had left Black people incapable of caring for themselves or joining in society<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Defend Racist Policies by Decrying Racism<\/strong>

One of the points Kendi makes throughout the book is that racist ideas are incredibly flexible\u2014they can be stretched, twisted, and otherwise repurposed as needed to support essentially any racist policy<\/a>. The idea that slavery made Black people inferior provides a particularly vivid example of this principle.\u00a0

As noted, this idea was initially conceived as racist argument against <\/em>a racist policy (slavery). But in recent years, the inherent racism of this abolitionist stance has been used to defend <\/em>ongoing racial disparities by attacking those who call attention to them. For instance, some conservative politicians and commentators have attacked Critical Race Theory (CRT)\u2014an academic movement that studies the relationships between race, racism, power, economics, politics, history, and more<\/a>\u2014for its supposed anti-Americanism<\/a> and anti-white racism<\/a>.\u00a0

One common argument from this camp is that CRT teaches Black people to see themselves as helpless victims<\/a>. The implication is that CRT itself<\/em> is racist because it proposes that Black people are unequal\u2014just as emancipationists suggested hundreds of years earlier. In a 2021 editorial, Kendi argues that this odd rhetorical inversion\u2014which suggests that those fighting against racism are actually perpetuating it\u2014is a political smokescreen designed to draw attention away from current policies that are actually<\/em> causing racial inequity<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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