What he doesn't understand is that to be truly ‘progressive’, and for humanity to be more than it has been, requires moving beyond hatred - and understanding that all of us are guilty of being less than we can be. Slavery in America was immoral and terrible, without the slightest doubt, but it was, unfortunately, but one immoral human act in a history replete with cruelty and immoral acts - and none of our ancestors are without sin.
His ‘transformation’ reeks of ‘payback’, and payback can never truly happen - because the guilty are almost never the targets of payback. The purveyors of slavery are all dead. Those whose families benefitted are so many generations beyond that time that to hold them accountable at this point is ludicrous and unjust. The rest of us have no connection to that past.
My point is that he is too shallow and motivated by hate to be able to do what is best - moving on together.
Excellent analysis. A comment about “The purveyors of slavery are all dead.” That is true for slavery as we knew it in America (where I have ancestors on both sides). But today there are almost 25 million people suffering in slavery worldwide - mainly in forced labor. That is more than America held 6 generations ago.
If progressives like Hussein cared about their plight the last place they would want to “transform” is our country. Hussein is a radical ideologue that hates America as founded.