Thank you for this excellent column. This passage is noteworthy among many:

<<That leaves white Catholics with the prevalent and erroneous assumption that racism is only about individuals who overtly convey negative attitudes against people of another race. Condemnation completely fails to address how good white people have long been — and continue to be — complicit in a host of practices and public policies that benefit them to the detriment and devastation of African-American, Latino and First American communities.>>

The notion that racism is simply a matter of personal virtue or conversion is widespread (and certainly not exclusive to white people). That is why so many white people take umbrage when accused of complicity in white supremacy. They view themselves as decent, moral Christians (or what have you) and not racists.

Racism is an ideology that metastasized in the 19th century to justify slavery and has been deployed ever since   to support white supremacy. That is a fact.