Thanks for citing me!

Ancestry is what a folk draw power from, as its existence is evidence of a people's endurance. Black people have needed the strong sense of ancestorhood--and essentially, a unified political understanding of our history--to continue to live and love in the West.

White people do not need that sense of ancestry. They have guns. They have capital. They have the land and the rivers. And the only way most of them can feel that the Earth is their just inheritance is by disabusing their ancestral pain.