Progressives are well ware that the cause of equity will not be accomplished in our lifetime. Does that mean we should abandon the goal? Should we allow your belief that you are a fundamentally unfair person (if you don't believe that about yourself, why is it an unchangeable condition for society?), therefore everyone always will be, to dissuade us?
Culture has inertia, of a sort, and inertia can be altered.
I read about Nathan Bedford Forrest when I was in 3rd grade. A little series of biographies for kids in orange covered books, over a hundred in all. He was a hero somehow. Lately his name has been thrown around for being a racist. On that kind of history, every tribal hero since the first cave cast a spell over the first human cooked meal has been a racist, I'm sure.
"Me good. Him bad."
I bring that up because that's your excuse for not parting company with Bill Ayers, Trotsky, and Machiavelli..... Hegel, Nietzche, Marx and a thousand other proponents of "The Ends Justifies the Means".
The philosopher's problem is just who gets to say what's right or wrong. Religionists have the convenience of ascribing their notions to "God", but secular humanists stand naked, having no one to point to but themselves.
the specious notion of inexorable "History" marching towards an envisioned utopia is often invoked as justifying the imposition of force on the reluctant or non-compliant "deplorables".
socialism, even religious "caring", is always a projection of one person's dream upon others', and is always an exercise in taking away someone else's ideal and trashing it.
So you've got nothing, and you should..... really, honestly.... just stop it.
And ya'll oughtta be as pissed as me at what Hillary and Obama have done to destroy human liberty. It takes determined blindness to claim Obama's admin was without scandal when he used US govt. taxpayer money to try to defeat his political opposition. that's a thousand times what Nixon did.
If you actually believed in your "ideals", you'd make haste to distance yourself from that kind. Hillary, Obama, even Sanders and the cute little snob who knows nothing. These people use you, and abuse you.
I'm not giving Trump a pass either. He needs to fire McConnell's wife Elaine Chou as Sec of Trans, and replace AG lego-boy with someone who will do the job. Rosenstein needs to resign, citing conflict of interests. Call it recusal if he wants. But he needs to be prosecuted and jailed.
The most intolerable offense against our national interest and human rights is the deployment of our own government agencies and personnel to defeat our electoral process. Damn any other government, but damn our own a thousand times over, when they do that.
It is beyond any defense or argument to claim Hillary and the DNC and Obama did not break our laws and use their inside influence with partisan officials to do that.
Period.