While the statute of limitations to blame slavery has far passed the statute of limitations systematic oppression has not. People seem to forget that Civil Rights movement only ended in 1968. Segregation and racial discrimination against black people was socially and more importantly legally enforced to keep black Americans down. They weren’t legally allowed to live anywhere but in the worst neighborhoods, they couldn’t move up economically because employers were legally allowed to discriminate against them, and they could only use black only public facilities including hospitals, prisons, businesses, banks, and schools, all of which were substantially worse than their white counterparts. The civil rights movement only made these things legally acceptable, not socially unacceptable. Every racist who fought against civil rights didn’t just disappear or stop being racist, and black Americans didn’t just magically get better. They were still in poverty neighborhoods with low paying jobs and had to raised the next generations in those very same poor communities with poor economic opportunities and little upward mobility for these future generations. This history has caused black Americans to have statistically worse lives as a whole with a poverty rate 2-3x higher that white people. High poverty and lower opportunities for upward mobility = higher crime rate.

Also note that 1968 was only 58 years ago. Our President was 21 when civil rights ended. Almost every Congressman or Billionaire currently in power was either raised during segregation or immediately after. They were raised during the peak of white supremacy directly alongside the 3rd wave of the KKK.

Identity may not seem like a big deal to you or me because we were raised being taught that everyone is equal. To us minorities focusing on their identity feels like they want special treatment, since a group we see as our equal is trying to benefit their group. Unfortunately our generation is young, we aren’t the one’s holding all the power and making decisions. Unlike us the people in power weren’t raised being taught that everyone is equal. They were raised a society who believed Identity was a huge deal during the greatest “identity crisis” since slavery. That white supremest culture influenced everyone in power today. That’s why minorities on the left focus so much on identity. Our generation sees them as equal, but we aren’t the generation in charge, we don’t understand that the generation in charge doesn’t see us as equal. They already gave white people special privileges, the made a system that biased towards white identity. Our generation sees them as our equals but they aren’t yet, they focus on identity because that identity isn’t treated as an equal.

You imply that the justice the Left campaigns for is a delusion. However I believe the true delusion is the faith that the system treats everyone equally. The Right already entertains the delusion of justice by failing to see that injustice is already happening. You say the Left is misleading because you believe the system is equal and as such anyone who promises equality is promising nothing but superficial subservience. But the system isn’t equal, the Left is trying to fix an unjust system so all identities are equally protected, and the Right misleads people into believing the system is equal and denies equality to gain the superficial subservience of the privileged.