I think that what is going on here is that the generation (mine) that grew up with the idea that equality meant treating people "equally" is not really understanding that the new (more nuanced) understanding is that there's way too much going on for us to just stop being the way we were, and have a true equality just by removing incidents of obvious racism.

I think for most of my life equality was parsed as the right for people with other skin colors to act like white people do without a restriction. As long as you didn't hamper that, you were not being racist. There was one culture, and everyone should have an equal right to participate in it from this point forward.

When you add in modern concepts of cultural messaging, traditional economic disparity, reflexive bias, you are identifying things that people don't think that they have any control over. And the issue becomes a lot more complicated than a simple "we all get judged by the content of our character not the color of our skin." Because in many ways, the color of our skin both forms, and acts as a lens through which the character is judged.

I don't think that this can ever be fully fixed, but I am over the idea that straight up treating everyone exactly the same is going to fix everything. What is "enough", who is going to pay for it, and what helps vs. what harms are still unanswered questions.

What is the duty of care that the government and society at large owes due to traditionally disadvantaged people? I think that's where the fights are going to be over the next decade.