Collective guilt?

The Stoics firmly reject that beloved cause of much contemporary Western political activism, namely the notion of collective or social guilt as a force in shaping virtue. For the Stoic, collective guilt is an impossible proposition simply because guilt is always about individual choice and personal wrongdoing. No one can ever be guilty of the act of another and no society can be held accountable for the actions of individuals from a previous generation.

Precisely.

My and my family's responsibility for slavery and Jim Crow?

For poverty in America?

For the rampant criminality of the black underclass?

For low black academic achievement?

For Hispanic gangs and overrepresentation in America's prisons?

Zero. Ze. Ro.

Now for an announcement from the Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP.

"Stoic Philosophy and the Profession of Arms." By Michael Evans, Quadrant, January-Febuary 2010.

H/t: kg at Crusader Rabbit.