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A question: Are ancestral guilt and collective guilt fundamentally liberal and tolerant subjects? Can people (“we”) be guilty for sins (“torture”) committed centuries ago (“past”) by people who look like us?
Trying to understand the scholar's reasoning (I did read the book twice):

1. All white people have anti-blackness;
2. That anti-blacknesss comes from our feelings of deep guilt.
3. That guilt is based on our complicity in things other people (either our ancestors or . . .
people who looked like us) did that we now consider morally wrong;
4. That knowledge (in our complicity int those actions) is unbearable for us;
5. To deflect that unbearable knowledge we develop anti-blackness (a sort of psychological defense mechanism).

Do I have that right?
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