Jess H. Brewer
1 min readMar 10, 2020

Believe me, I understand your frustration at being bagged with all the other white people; it’s definitely Not Fair. But are you denying that class and privilege are strongly correlated with skin color, statistically? Or that, as counterexamples, we still share some responsibility for what the Bad white people have done to create that ststistical correlation? It’s a tricky business. I believe Mother Theresa shared some responsibility for the Crusades — not because she had any role in them herself or in any way defended them, but because she strongly identifies with the same religion that launched them. Without such inherited responsibility there is no possibility of social justice.

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Jess H. Brewer
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