Late-arriving white immigrants claim innocence of American racial oppression

Evidence

My father came to this country when he was a teenager. Not only had he never profited from the sweat of any black man’s brow, I don’t think he had ever seen a black man. There are, of course, many white ethnic groups that came to this country in great numbers relatively late in its history—Italians, Jews, Irish, Poles—who not only took no part in, and derived no profit from, the major historic suppression of the currently acknowledged minority groups, but were, in fact, themselves the object of discrimination by the dominant Anglo-Saxon majority. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 568

Categorization

• XREF: This is the strongest version of the ‘my family were immigrants, not enslavers’ objection — useful ammunition for the reader defending against it.