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John's view might be illustrated by the following analogy: Suppose a group of people are playing a ball game. There are two teams, white and black. The membership of the teams changes throughout the game, but the score is cumulative. Half way through the game it is agreed that the black team has not been given the proper number of shots with the ball. The usual rules are suspended while the black team is given several extra shots. After these compensatory shots are taken, the game continues according to the normal rules.

On this view, proving that all whites are the beneficiaries of racial discrimination is not very important. What IS important is to correct for past errors. Can you make this analogy more perfect or, perhaps, find a flaw?