I don&#x27;t understand how this is reacting to what I said...?<p>I&#x27;m not saying he wasn&#x27;t a hero.  I&#x27;m saying he&#x27;s coming from a different starting point; and that he himself explicitly said he wasn&#x27;t doing what the other two were (and didn&#x27;t belong on the statue).<p>Victimization what?  Who&#x27;s a victim here?  Whose superiority over whose?<p>I don&#x27;t think anyone of any color&#x2F;background&#x2F;whatever is better than anyone else.  I <i>do</i> think that if you spend your life benefiting from unfair systems (not just racism, all kinds of things in life are unfair), you owe the world some effort to right the balance.<p>-- edit: I thought of a better way to access this idea.  Everyone seems to already agree to this implicitly when talking about money.  E.g., if someone who builds an amazing business and gets rich, it&#x27;s a <i>bigger accomplishment</i> if their parents were poor, they had a poor early education, etc., than someone who builds an equivalent business, but they went to the best schools, their parents helped fund it, etc..<p>I just apply the same approach to all the other areas in life where some people are simply born into unfair advantages; and extend it a bit to say that if you have a ton of resources handed to you by life on a silver platter, that&#x27;s not the same as &quot;earning&quot; them, and (in my opinion) you need to make more of an effort before you&#x27;ll be making a positive impact on the world.