Some American Indians will be held to account as well, since a few were slave-owners. But they may be able to be held harmless due to the damage that the Buffalo soldiers did to the Indian psyche.

And of course, whites will be rolling in the dough when we start charging for the ancestral use of white inventions – autos, telephone, computers, internet, electricity, oil, antibiotics, the alphabet. You know, all those insignificant things that add up to a civilization for everyone, regardless of skin color.

It isn’t just the sins of the fathers, but the fathers of some of those whites (most of those whites, actually) did not participate in the sins, so there is no sin in the families of those particular innocent whites. It is the sins of other people’s fathers, not of their own fathers, that they are punished for. How many of these white children are in reality descended from people who fought to end those sins, perhaps even died or were maimed in order to end those sins? Rather than being thanked, their descendants are punished.

Such ingratitude just goes to show what a poor reward we get for doing good. No good deed goes unpunished, but we are the generations being punished for our forefathers’ (and other people’s forefathers’) good deeds.

What kind of people punish the innocent, punish the children of the innocent, and punish the rescuers and their children?

• Using accusations of systemic racism to destroy corporate, government, educational, religious, military institutions
• Using covid to require jabs, and shut down the economy and schools
• Increasing the national debt by $11 trillion dollars in the last 4 years from $23 trillion in 2019 to $34 trillion in 2023
• Destruction of the American educational system
• Corrupting and sexualizing children
• Economic policies that destroy industries
• Increasing number of people dependent on government subsidies
• Millions of unvetted foreigners crossing our borders

I see the fingerprints of the Chinese communist party as one of the agents behind this. For decades they’ve studied how to kill the body, mind and spirit of individuals and countries.

This 8 minute video from 2020 is a Chinese speaker telling a Chinese audience in China that “We have people at the top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence”. The audience laughs and applauds:

“Tucker Carlson’s Monologue on a Chinese Professor’s Recent Speech Should Terrify You”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2020/12/08/tucker-carlsons-monologue-on-a-chinese-professors-recent-speech-should-terrify-you-n1197202

As Robert and others have suggested*, identity politics / DEI and Dr. King’s Dream point to radically different ways of perceiving our history and making amends for it, and central to the former philosophy is the idea is that no such reconciliation is truly possible or even desirable. Instead, in this view, our country must remain forever divided along the fissures of race, ethnicity, and gender, and — beyond these attributes — human beings have so little in common (or believe in so few of the same fundamental things) that they cannot even share their perceptions and expectations about life with people who are different from themselves. Leading, inevitably, in Hobbes’ view, to antagonistic factions and an eternal “war of all against all.”

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/27/identity-trap-yascha-mounk-review/

Dr. King, on the other hand, called upon people to acknowledge their shared humanity and to go forward together on the basis of that, however difficult the journey together might be. Again, two radically different concepts about the nature of human beings and what is
possible for them to achieve in terms of what kind of societies might exist and how they can be governed**. The State of Florida would seem to be placing its bet on the concept that Dr. King’s approach is workable and that people have enough in common to overcome their superficial differences. We shall see. (Implicit in this is also the idea of a *shared culture* in which everyone can fully participate
as citizens and stake holders. Under DEI, no such common American culture is conceivable, let alone desirable, leaving the arena wide open for the totalitarians to swoop in and impose their Leviathan form of order.)

**That we have “the freedom to choose” in such matters is at the core of Mr. Zimmerman’s book, Conscious Choice.

PS — As Robert observes, “when whites get hurt unfairly merely because of their skin color this proves [to some]that racial justice has been achieved.” No, two wrongs *do not* make a right, but sometimes experience does make the best teacher. Walking a mile in someone else’s shoes — especially a painful and frustrating mile — can do wonders for opening eyes and changing hearts, if those involved in the exercise are so moved. Indeed, Mr. Trump’s trials and tribulations at the hands of the Biden Administration’s lawfare assault would seem to be finding resonance among those whose historical experience (Jim Crow and other legal subterfuges) includes just such tactics. He, they believe, “gets it,” and wrong is wrong, whatever one’s complexion.

David Ross: I have not read those books, so I admit to some ignorance. I also know that the power structure for spreading the poison of critical race theory came out of these identity-based university departments. King was certainly not perfect, but the words of his greatest most important speech are what people remember most about him. That the ideas he expressed in that speech are now rejected and in fact hated by the black academia community makes it important to reference his work now.

… conservatives, I suppose, have the right to claim that King was some kind of color-blind libertarian, but they’re… well, they’re not taken seriously when they do.