After decades/centuries of abuse, how does "forgiveness" fix systemic issues? Forgiveness can't fix the fact that black Americans were denied access to loans, houses, GI Bill provisions, and all sorts of opportunities that were the primary source of household wealth gains for the last 75 years. It can't fix the fact that those gains mean white people have, on average, more access to "a small loan" from a family member to start a business, a house or inheritance to fall back on if their take a risk starting a business and it doesn't pan out, and so on.
Your point stands, but population dynamics over the last 75 years complicate matters. There are as many immigrants in the United States today (not even counting children of immigrants) as there are Black Americans – immigrants who of course did not have access to GI Bill provisions, etc. How do they fit into the picture?
Part of a functioning, healthy system is recompense/justice, and yes foregiveness.
If you tear a system down, even if you manage to shift some power balance, you stand to create a situation as bad or worse than the one you began with.
Unless a core value of the system you seek to create is forgiveness, you only stand to substitute one systemic opression for another.
Put in terms perhaps you might understand, african americans, hispanics are not forgiven their crimes, where often those with wealth and influence or socially favorable bias are (often) foregiven.
Adding more henious lanaguage, attitude to the mix does not help, when it can be redirected at those still in a position of relative powerlessness.
Some specific crimes should be punished harder (rapists especially in college and positions of power should immediately be punished and severely), at the same time where we are willing to dole out forgiveness, that should be equally given.
