Nonetheless, we do deny. Many of us take it to the next level and claim that white America is the victim of Black America. If not for the sacrifices of white soldiers and a white American president who gave his life to sign the Emancipation proclamation, Blacks in America would have remained slaves indefinitely. Wow, I guess no African attempted to free himself until whites introduced the idea of freedom. While I don't agree with Horowitz's perception of history, I think that it represents the frame of mind of American society.
Group process examines whether the presence of groups effects the attitude of individuals.
We know that the big-lie techniques of Horowitz and others don't make perfect sense and don't represent the collective viewpoint, but that didn't stop Nazi Germany from falling in sync with Hitler's aria of hate. Throughout most of America's history, there has been a dichotomy of social roles, whether we want to admit it or not. While enslaved Africans were seen as chattel, by writ of law according to the Constitution. They were seen as the antithesis of the humanity that the modified Puritans saw in themselves. Our national saints such as Thomas Jefferson and George Washington were not only participants but sponsors of a racist institution.