As I see it,
holding onto these grievances about
THINGS THAT AREN’T HAPPENING NOW
is simply a crutch and an excuse to fail.
It’s not skin color or racism in society that’s keeping people down, as demonstrated by the success of very dark people coming from Africa and succeeding in our country.
Amen.
The American distinctive is a personal worldview that revolves around personal responsibility-—the “rugged individual.”
That’s what, fundamentally, makes Wright et al’s screed quintessentially anti- and un-American. It denies and decries any and every sentiment of what it actually, practicably means in a day-to-day way to be American. To wit, to live one’s life and make one’s choices with a profound sense and PRIDE in personal responsibility-—and to resist any other “answer” to one’s situation.