The idea that people who have lived in grinding poverty for generations and the country’s wealthiest plutocrats - the country’s powerless and most powerful - share an equal inheritance of benefit and debt from America’s history of racial oppression is an absurd and shameful notion.
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It’s about an individual reflecting and saying “yes, as an identifiable group we have historically short-changed pretty much everybody else to our own advantage whether consciously or unconsciously, through intent or ignorance” and then taking that acknowledgement and choosing to live their life as best they can - not to necessarily balance the books, but to at least not incur any more debt.
[/quote] It perfectly possible to aware of your history and lead a good, humane life without having to except (or even contemplate for a second) the notion that all white Americans - regardless of personal or cosmic circumstances, share in absolute equality an inheritance of benefit and indebtedness from the oppression of black Americans.
