The dehumanizing term “super-predators” highlights how, in the supposedly color-blind, nonracist 1990s, racist ideas that imply Black people are “savage” animalistic “brutes” are as strong as ever. Indeed, the term “super-predators” fuses the dehumanizing language of the colonial and slavery eras with the new language of criminality introduced in the latter half of the 20th century, highlighting the continuity between these two forms of racism.