This is the classic "Bacon's Law" as Mr. Spivey points out and I happily agree with. It derives from Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 in Virginia. I thought I would just name it because it suddenly reminded of Lynch Law, a book from 1905 I'm reading, inspired by the works of Ida B. Wells and the bill introduced in 1900 by congressman White, the last black man elected to the federal government in 1898. He introduced an anti-lynching law, or what I refer to by its biblical name, "The Thou Shall Not Kill Negroes Law". That of course was thoroughly rejected as seen as much too moral a stance to take by the white men in government and the President at the time (and until 2022 when it finally passed after 200 attempts). Instead they named it after Emmit Till, which is fine, but it probably should have been name after Congressman White who fearlessly introduced it, in party inspired by the 1898 Wilmington Massacre/Insurrection in his district. Lynch Law was the unwritten constitutional law of White Supremacy in the South, used religiously for over a hundred years, with well over 11,000 murderers of innocent black Americans as a display of white power, which was an affront to the rule of American Law and Democracy. There has yet to be a reckoning of the anti-American system of the se 15 neoslavery ("Jim Crow") in particular who constructed divisional laws, 365 by my current count, anathema to democracy and the American constitution, but a in line with the law of supremacist autocracy. It's not just taking down status, it's that we have to have to stop calling those people who passed such laws "Americans." They were not. It's a long list of whites, for sure, and they won't like it. But then again, when have they ever not like being called out for who and what they are?