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Beating ourselves up is not necessary, but ...

I am writing in response to last week's letter from Tom Spear ("Focus on the future, not the past," June 3):

I don't know you, so I am moved to ask: Are you a Black American still fighting for the right to vote? Are you a child or grandchild of a Japanese American whose livelihood was taken as he was forcibly moved far away to an internment camp?

Are you a member of a First Peoples' tribe whose child was yanked away and made to speak English and dress in Western clothing? Are you a person of Asian descent who has been handed the blame for COVI...