I don’t know if you read the article or not, but my argument is one for current wrongs.

Let’s imagine that, a hundred years ago, the people in a village forced those occupying a neighboring village to stop living out in the open and instead made them all to live inside a large cave, where life is harsh, and there is only enough food, light, and heat available for them to barely carry on living. The cave entrance was sealed shut after the villagers were moved in with massive boulders that took a tremendous effort to put in place.

Now, we can come to present day and the villagers who did all this have passed away, but their descendants live on. Those descendants are not guilty for the crime committed, but if they have the means to move those boulders, and don’t, are they actively committing an act of moral negligence, or can we free them of any responsibility since they didn’t perpetrate the act themselves?

Also, I believe you’re reading “Black American” differently than I’m writing it. I don’t mean an American who happens to be Black. I mean that group of Americans who cannot rightly be called Jamaican American, Haitian American, Nigerian American, or have any other nationality but “American” tied to their identity, because their ancestors have occupied this land for centuries, so they can really only be called Black Americans.