" No matter what African people did, they were barbaric beasts or brutalized like beasts. If they did not clamor for freedom, then their obedience showed they were naturally beasts of burden. If they nonviolently resisted enslavement, they were brutalized. If they killed for their freedom, they were barbaric murderers. "

― Ibram X. Kendi , Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America