6. The idea that racism is over -- or even just that policy should be colorblind -- has a clear winner: the group that benefited from the years of racism and that now doesn't have to pay any compensatory costs.
And, yes, people alive today benefit from much that happened in their great-grandparents' time. Wealth is passed down through generations, and quite a lot of racist policy in the United States was designed to help white Americans amass wealth by stopping African Americans from doing so, or, in some cases, by directly taking the wealth of African Americans. Today's wealth gap is, in part, the legacy of the country's past, and it has winners as well as losers.