Maybe "40 Acres & A Mule" Was A Missed Opportunity

During slavery, so many whites saw nothing wrong with it, it remained an institution for hundreds of years - and now?

There's a form of mental torture called "gaslighting," its name taken from a play in which a man convinces his wife that the gas lights in their home she sees brightening and dimming are, in fact, maintaining a steady glow. His ultimate goal is to drive her into a mental institution and take all her money, and soon the woman ends up in an argument with herself about whether she's losing her mind. American race relations have a similar narrative: An entire set of minorities confident that the everyday slights they're seeing are real and hurtful, and an entire set of other people assuring them that they're wrong.

I'm assured whites who get attacked "for nothing" can relate,...