I just heard Tim Wise make an interesting argument that one of the perpetuating factors in systemic white supremacy is that there is an aspect of its culture th

I just heard Tim Wise make an interesting argument that one of the perpetuating factors in systemic white supremacy is that there is an aspect of its culture that blinds its adherents to the truth. In his argument, the blinder was the idea of American Meritocracy, where one's lot in life is decided by how hard one is willing to work. Just based on the evidence we have, this is plainly not the case. Last I read, the biggest factor in determining your level of wealth is how wealthy your parents were a few years before you were born. But from an institutional perspective, this belief makes it easy to point to black people and say 'they are poor because they are lazy and we have some degree of wealth because we worked so hard'.