President Barack Obama, in 2015, made a widely reported statement that "The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow, and that's still part of our DNA that's passed on."  This was another bit of deconstructionist verbiage where DNA is used to suggest how deeply fixed racism is in the psyches of white persons, but at the same time, although the term is biological, it is intended as a metaphor for an historical process or condition.  What can whites do to change this?  Almost nothing.  Yet at the same time whites remain responsible and perpetually guilty for the difficulties that assail the members of the black community in the USA, individually and as a whole.  Thus racism is more than a weakness or tendency.  It is a permanent moral stain requiring permanent atonement.  It consigns whites to the status of eternal penitents before a wronged party from...(Read Full Article)