> That wasn't a prevailing stereotype back then The stereotype has always been that black people are so lazy that the only time we show intelligence is in the

> That wasn't a prevailing stereotype back then The stereotype has always been that black people are so lazy that the only time we show intelligence is in the creative ways we use to get out of work. It's a slaveholder's stereotype and a justification for torture. This is the stereotype now, this was the stereotype then, and this stereotype has been applied to any group of slaves or low-waged workers who were ethnically distinct from the people who benefited from their labor. That's why they wrote that.