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The "sins of the father" thing, IMO, is misunderstood. I'd like to see it contrasted with the "Original Sin."
Once you look at the concepts, it's clear that while no one should be punished for what their ancestors did, that there is an inevitable and unavoidable responsibility of sorts to deal with the situation ones forebearers left.
What's missed in discussions where this "sins of the fathers" ideas comes up as an excuse not to deal with the situation decisions made in the past left is how those decisions impacted Africans/African-Americans, e.g., in ways that show how people have to deal with things that are not of their own creation.
For those who use the "sins of the fathers" line, IMO, it's a cop out. I'll grant them some leeway considering how certain conversations are framed but they have no excuse and no reason to take such a selfish view and pretend like they have some special exemption or exception where they can abdicate their responsibility to deal with the situation other generations of Americans left.
Black people, IMO, by and large do that even when its clear they didn't create the problems that result from colorism, e.g.
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