> When trying to fix historical social ills, people will resort to silly triviality like eliminating "master" in situations where it does not imply slavery, because it is easier to rename things than to reshape problematic behaviors.
@lnxw48a1 What's especially strange is that lately people are more sure in that this works than ever.
Maybe they see annoyance of people they don't like as a sign that they're succeeding. If the adversary thinks it's bad, then it must be good.

> How to go from where we are today to a place where we do not use ancestry in workplace, housing, education decisions is tough.

Well, my personal biased opinion is that on a state level this can be fixed in just a matter of decades by affordable healthcare education and employment strictly based on merit, i.e. with social justice.
As I understand it, the correlation between wealth and skin tone is strong in the US, and I think that it's a self-perpetuating cycle as the need for money to make money is just too high.
And it's also a contribution to the human just-world fallacy, which here means that humans are inclined to think that poor people deserve their misfortunes.
And if most poor people share a trait, then it also becomes part of it.