When I hear about children in our schools being made to say that they are an oppressor if they are white and that they are a victim if they are of color, I think about Germany of the 1930's where the propaganda of the time was that Jews were the oppressors and that non Jews were the victims. Eventually the oppressors were removed for extinction and the victims stood silent.
For years we've been told that stereotyping individuals is wrong as is racial profiling. Yet the same people who were preaching that are now the ones claiming systemic racism and White Privilege.
I'm sorry but I can't accept that tens of thousands of white men were slaughtered at places like Shiloh, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, fighting to end slavery, because they lived in a country that was systemically racist.
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