(cont) and most other issues about which they complain. And so, essentially, reflection on the conditions in which so many Black people live begins and ends with an assessment of their moral (and often more general) deficiencies. That was the sense of, "they deserve it"  I was intending, that their sufferings were primarily the consequence of their own shortcomings. 

I have been trying to argue that the larger society has it's own moral shortcomings, expressed in unilateral actions towards Black people, to their detriment, and that we are responsible for the harms we have caused, no less than those kids with guns. I'm trying to argue for moral accountability for everyone, not just for those we have abused for hundreds of years. 

Anderson's book goes into the effects of Brown in some detail. There have been some salutary consequences, but their scope was not remotely proportionate to the previous harms, and those gains made have tapered off considerably.

(cont.)