1. So, given your perspective, those who have been wronged will forever have a grievance, and nothing anyone does can repair their situation?

Then that prompts the reasonable question: why try? Especially for grievances that Blacks of today never suffered. Slavery ended in the U.S. about six or seven generations ago. How many generations do they need before the effect on them is negligible?

And by the way, White people are the first and only race to end slavery. It's still very much alive and well in Africa and Asia.

Can I play, too? My grandparents were native Italians who came to this country. I wonder what grievances my own ancestors suffered if I dig around a bit. That, by the way, could include slavery, too. Thanks to the Barbary Slave Trade, Europeans were also slaves. My father, a first generation natural born citizen, was a World War II veteran.

There is a danger in clinging to previous generations and attempting to use it to demand preferential treatment or exoneration from some really despicable misdeeds.

Mel Gibson blames his father for his despicable attitudes toward gays, Jews, women and Black people. He's also 68 years old. When does he finally grow up and realize that his father was wrong?

2. I am sorry about your kinsman Sarah. It places on her an incredible burden of emotional, physical and psychological trauma that must be incredibly difficult.

But I can tell you this: her remedy doesn't lie in perpetually holding out her hand.

Does that sound callous? I speak from experience. There is another article I wrote which might be of interest to you: https://patrickjcolliano.medium.com/am-i-a-terrible-person-for-claiming-a-black-woman-is-more-privileged-than-i-am-aec632abba4b