Safia,

You wrote: "Slavery, apartheid, Jim Crow laws, etc. did not end after centuries because the oppressed held in their anger - they channelled it into long struggles to get justice."

Here's perhaps some history which needs airing:

It was most certainly almost all rich and middle class White men in England who outlawed slavery in the United Kingdom in the 'Abolition of Slavery' in 1772 and then later outlawed the slave trade in 1807.

BTW: Universal suffrage in England was late in coming as the poor, who could not afford to own land, could not vote. 1918 was the date that all men and all women could vote.

Here's another:

White Abolitionists and Quakers and many White and Black sympathizers helped maintain the underground railroad to Upper and Lower Canada and the Maritimes.

So, don't add decontextualized and faulty history onto the fires of an absolutism which will alienate potential White allies: unless you think you won't need their votes?

Of course MLK and countless Black civil rights marchers gave their lives to change what had to change.

It just wasn't achieved by Black people alone, or the oppressed.

Any fight to combat racism will most definitely need White folks to defeat the unconscionable division of wealth, a division which exacerbates the economic tensions which in turn fuel the racism, some of which is startling evident in identity politics.