Right, this is the often asserted line, but what does this actually mean in practice? None of us are time travellers. The children who were upset by their teacher using it in a completely benign context have no experience of that baggage. Nor should they. But they get it programmed into them anyway.

This is the point I'm making. The baggage still exists because we black people are carrying it around with us. And worse, making our kids carry it.

And even putting that aside, what is the baggage? That some people are stupid enough to believe that the colour of a person's skin defines them? That they believe it makes them superior or inferior? That some people were unspeakably cruel on that basis? I certainly have my thoughts and feelings about these facts. But deep, generational hurt is not among them.