When Hillary Clinton referred to young inner-city Black males as "super predators" in 1996, she was not simply hurling racist insults; she was speaking from within a long American tradition of science, pseudoscience, and government policy aimed at intentionally creating Black super predators in the inner cities, for reasons we will discuss later. Though the scientific myth of a class of genetic "super predators" can be traced back to 1965, the term "super predator" as a label for young Black males was coined by Princeton University professor John DiIulio in 1995 and 1996, when he claimed that America was facing a looming threat from a population of young Black boys who were "Godless" and "alien" and who could "kill or maim on impulse."