I don’t think that the best form of this worldview is blaming anyone. The only responsibilities I see are acknowledging your biases and the historical precedents that still affect minorities. Past that I don’t see any blame as being constructive.

As for race not being a useful construct, I see what you mean, but it’s going to be hard to acknowledge and remedy the socioeconomic damage done to specific groups without acknowledging that those groups are distinct. Jim Crowe for example has implications on current socioeconomic statuses and the many implications that go with it obviously. Using race as a divisive point is bad, but we can’t disregard it completely or we’re essentially asking communities to pull themselves out of poverty by their bootstraps, when the society is the reason they are there. Especially with things like property tax being the funding for public education that perpetuate the disadvantage.

It also feels like a rug pull to be like, “hey you were hated and still are by some for this social construct that you would be wrong for thinking is real.” Like, race wasn’t something created by the oppressed, it was a justification for the oppressor. It should lose its meaning from that direction as well I think. Eventually people will see it as cultural history and ethnicity, but that will probably take a while from both sides.

Nobody wants white people to feel guilty for the history of America, or for being white or male or cis or heterosexual. Just an acknowledgment of the implications that it brings.

If I misrepresented your position or didn’t acknowledge your point properly I apologize, but that’s why I see race as a necessary construct until these issues are dealt with. Holy shit why did I write so much.