A thread:
“Racial reformers have customarily requested or demanded that Americans, particularly White Americans, sacrifice their own privileges for the betterment of Black people. 1/
For example, though there was much sacrifice of life and blood spent by White Americans both for and against the “Peculiar Institution” of the South during the Civil War, we ought never think of the end of the institution ...
“It is not coincidental that slavery kept the vast majority of southern Whites poor" (@DrIbram).
It’s really pretty racist, if you think about it.