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Sydnew wrote:

I would ask humbly if you feel we have really tried genuinely confronting the contents of our character. There is white generational wealth in the US built on the backs of slave labor from human beings that we bought, sold and bred, that's perhaps an inconvenient truth but a truth nonetheless. So how to get to equality and objectivity without truly addressing that? Unfortunately we are too afraid to do so. We persistently have fear of equal rights and opportunity - the current obsession with calling any attempt to address or even discuss inequality "CRT" or "identity politics" is coming from that fear. We see this played out again and again in our history (the Tulsa Massacre, Wilmington 1898, Charlottesville, etc.) It's like those sins of the past we never purged reach up through the American psyche and require the demonization of the people we have historically oppressed and abused, because if they are the cause then we were somehow justified. The fact that we put up monuments to the Confederacy, that most of those monuments were put up during the Jim Crow/Civil Rights era and that there's resistance to removing them to this day tells you how much soul searching we still have to do.

"We fight today over an offense we did not give, against those not alive to be offended."

Erasing history, and punishing people living today for what their great grandaddy might have done to my great granddaddy does not help my people embrace the potential of today and tomorrow.
Every aspect of grievance politics keeps us leashed to political handlers that are enriching themselves at our expense.