The most plausible answer is white trauma. At a corporate level, it’s traumatic that a country that aspires to be a place of equality for all people did this to its own citizens. And the risk of trauma is high at a personal level. Once we open up this history, who knows what else we’ll find? I think of a white friend who came from a long line of preachers and the anxiety he felt about exploring his lineage. He knew his grandfather pastored during the height of the KKK, and he was quite apprehensive about what he might discover if he began to poke around. Versions of this same anxiety live
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