Take away the judgemental label, the epithet, the charged noun and adjective that elicit defensiveness and denial. What is left? A bare observation: the systems in our culture (government, schooling, business, banking, real estate, policing and incarceration, religion, entertainment, sports) have for hundreds of years perpetuated inequity. It is an observation of a historical reality; not an opinion, nor an accusation directed at individuals. Are there exceptions at the individual level? Sure, but that doesn’t change the historical reality. American systems are fundamentally, profoundly rooted in assumptions of white male christian superiority. Are we perhaps at last able to face it and get real about the violence that has been committed in the name of this phantom superiority and the compulsive capitalist hoarding that goes with it? Some of us have long dreamed of a culture based on a different set of values.