Ritvik: whitewashing helps to justify the continuation of contemporary racial istate violence, unequal political and economic conditions. He argues that by omitting or perhaps rewriting the actual histories of anti blac racism, eunophobia, patriarchy, class struggle, neu s are then encouraged to see contemporary incidents of injustice as mere aberrations. Ritik: The most glaring and most cartoonishly offensive version of this posthumous conscription into liberal to liberal americana is what we do to indigenous people inindigenous heroes.