Original sentence: As such, racism not only antedates the Republic and the thirteen Colonies, but even the use of the English language in this hemisphere.But the point of the Statement is not a scholarly discourse on race relations or class.But we are a minority -- the vast majority of our people regard the temporary equilibriums of our society and world as eternally-functional parts.For instance, most people in earlier times couldn't grasp racial guilt because Europeans didn't think of it until the 19th century.Hyperventilating juvenile angst, race-baiting and innuendo are constantly and shrewdly couched in therapeutic jargon ("The awe inspired by the pervasiveness of racism in American life").It is a polemic directed at overthrowing traditionalist, European America.Nor is any historic context related.One of the most salient features of the Statement is its ability to create strawman issues and then knock them down; specifically, by the exploitation of envy, both racial and class, and the exploitation of adolescent alienation that a mature adult can ascertain in the following examples:.Our work is guided by the sense that we may be the last generation in the experiment with living.The awe inspired by the pervasiveness of racism in American life is only matched by the marvel of its historical span in American traditions.The decline of utopia and hope is in fact one of the defining features of social life today.The national heritage of racial discrimination via slavery has been a part of America since Christopher Columbus' advent on the new continent.The reasons are various: the dreams of the older left were perverted by Stalinism and never recreated.There is no mention of the Civil War or how other nations treat their minorities.To be idealistic is to be considered apocalyptic, deluded.Towards that end there are carefully outlined steps on how to subvert American universities and infiltrate the Democratic Party by SDS.We regard men as infinitely precious and possessed of unfulfilled capacities for reason, freedom, and love.White America is stained forever by its slave past.the horrors of the twentieth century, symbolized in the gas-ovens and concentration camps and atom bombs, have blasted hopefulness