I'm so confused why the author thinks this is ironclad. I don't see why racism necessarily has anything to do with collective guilt or how it comes out of a des

I'm so confused why the author thinks this is ironclad. I don't see why racism necessarily has anything to do with collective guilt or how it comes out of a desire to extract reparations for a wrong someone else has done. Racism can have many impulses and origins behind it, from using a race as a careless and convenient boogeyman against which to unite a community against, to a natural fear of the unfamiliar and foreign by a monocultural society. These do not involve seeking reparations for a past injustice.