Which sounds about right to me. This wasn't ever that controversial a suggestion, nor is it unique to this essay. But it was an easy target for people who wan

Which sounds about right to me. This wasn't ever that controversial a suggestion, nor is it unique to this essay. But it was an easy target for people who wanted to oppose the project as a whole. So we get comments like the grandparent, who apparently views this one idea as the "core" of a project that literally covers four hundred years of history. It's tiresome. I mean, I read this stuff when it was published (it was really great, and absolutely Pulitzer-worthy), and I swear when the knives started flying I had to go back and find the passages in question because frankly I didn't even remember them. It's also really upsetting that still, in the year 2020, the idea that black folks experience endemic racism is a partisan idea that has to be opposed by half the population as a matter of faith.