What is so troubling today is not the admission that white privilege is built into the fabric of the United States of America as a matter of law, but that most of those educated in the nation are completely unaware of the history. We are not saving the face of the U.S. by denying the truth of its deep history of white superiority. We are ensuring that its future will be frustrating for those living it, because we are denying the tools needed to help it all to make sense.