Yes, scars run deep. Mine included but not because of injustices as serious as you recount.
imo, it's not that we have them, we all do. All of us. It's how we go on with them that got us here. Carrying them like baggage will either freeze us or slow us down. Dropping the baggage to get Big Projects done can save all us scarred humans. Once saved we can go back and sort out the dropped baggage later.
I can then also see why Black Americans might not see us as white allies the way we see ourselves, for all the horror and history we didn't experience as they did at the hands of our racial group.
Race, religion, politics, economics. They all do damage at the same time they advance civilization over centuries, the filthy predators with the innocent children beneficiaries.
And when it comes to Big Projects, the extremes of damaged humans seem to be humanity's inertia.
By the time we realize that we will all be dead together if we don't work together, it will be too late.
But the science of climate says we must put that aside, work with whom we can, take allies from anywhere because otherwise we will die everywhere.
Without an everybody in/nobody out approach, those who won't work with anyone -- which could be everyone, really -- but watch and see what happens, might as well say,
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