There are a lot of people who think that racism is over and we're a long way from slavery when we actually aren't. Harriet Tubman died in 1913, my grandmother was born in 1940. Equality is only seen as a zero sum game because of the hyper competitive capitalist culture we live in. We're so busy fighting each other for a "seat at the table" we don't stop to ask why the table's so small in the first place.