Equivocation on the contrast between "equality" and "superiority". The goal of equality claimed by the civil rights movement -- which you say was really aiming

Equivocation on the contrast between "equality" and "superiority". The goal of equality claimed by the civil rights movement -- which you say was really aiming at "superiority", which I think would be news to the white people involved at the very least -- was not that of a society in which every person ends up in exactly the same situation; it was of a society in which people don't have systematically worse opportunities because they are black or because all their ancestors were slaves or whatever. Aiming at equality in that sense is not the least bit incompatible with hoping to succeed by being clever and working hard to do something that others value. If the Racism Fairy appeared before me and told me that I could have a life that was "better as opposed to worse, above as opposed to under" by (say) stealing half the property of all the black people in the country and giving it to white people -- I happen to be white, so I'd gain rather than lose from that -- then I would turn down that offer. If the Anti-Racism Fairy appeared instead and offered to obliterate every vestige of racial prejudice, but warned that it would make white people (including me) slightly worse off, I'd say yes in a flash. And if you don't believe me because you think "kto kogo?" is the only question, then fuck you and the (doubtless white) horse you rode in on.