Quote Originally Posted by early morning View Post
Agreed, jp1. I can be outraged by past injustices (to groups, individuals, the planet) and I can hate what my forefathers did, but I'm not such a snowflake that talking about it makes me feel all sorts of guilt. And I can be outraged about the forces that drove my forefathers out of their ancestral homes without expecting the ancestors of our "victimhood" to feel guilt. That said, some of them profited greatly from the acts that drove others out, and I don't think its a bad idea that some of those profits go to bettering conditions for people in general or for the groups that were wronged. I do think acknowledgement of past wrongs makes it easier to move forward, as opposed to pretending it never happened.
Of course. Reasonable people understand that learning about past injustices is stretching, not weakening, our own understanding of the world and making good our society.

However, some of the school exercises in these “learning” efforts are far from benign.

Living in an epicenter of racial politics as as I did, I attended many race awareness sessions through work and neighborhood unity efforts and etc. Those were 20+ years ago and the content of the sessions have changed, and not for the good.