“ You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which. ”
Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
~ Jonathan R. Miller
You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.
If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.