Gregory Rothbard’s Reviews > Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism > Status Update

Why torture? Torture was to “control bodies by imprinting minds; the horrors witnessed or stories heard were meant to be hard to shake.” The traumas were so hard to shake they became generational. They became prisons through the white devil who might come for you, so you better follow the lines.

The logic of elimination masks itself as benevolence.