Thread by @absurdistwords

Let's look at this another way.

Let's say you were born into a secret society that values lineage, bestows wealth upon your family and acquires the money to do so through serial murder and theft, and on your 21st birthday, you are made aware of this.

What do you do?

https://twitter.com/Derekoh12/status/1363561758070173701

After all, you can't change the fact that you were born into an ancestral line that this secret society values.

You didn't ask to be born into this society, and you've just now discovered that your whole life has been funded through murder.

You didn't create the secret society.

You didn't designate your family line as one of the important ones.

All that happened generations before you were born.

You can't rip out your DNA or go back in time to change who your parents are.

You didn't know that the secret society funds your bank account monthly, pays for your house and transportation.

You just thought it happened to be your parents.

So is the answer then that you just continue life as if you never discovered this and keep all the perks?

Do you ignore everything you know?

Or do you ask about who was killed and why?

Do you make it a priority to learn more about this society?

Does it occur to you to tell others about it? Go to law enforcement or the press?

Do you seek reparations to the families whose murdered kin and stolen wealth fill your wallet?

Do you work to subvert and bring down this society?

Or do you let it be, because you want the society to make sure that your kids have as good a life as you?

Is it worth it?

These are questions you can answer without having to address race, or skin color or white supremacy at all.