We need some "common" sense and a "sense" of responsibility.
"I only know in my heart that to kill me for the acts of another individual OR group is unjust and unfair."
~ I hope that you know in "your heart" that it is unjust and unfair that an individual OR group (white people)get Unearned Privileges and Benefit based on skin color and on the backs of the Oppression of an individual OR group (black people). Are we capable of being outraged by that? Black people("based on skin color") are being killed right now to sustain YOUR COMFORT....you said yourself that killing people based on skin color is wrong. This is what has been going on and is going NOW.

From: http://www.rootsie.com/articles/2004/0305.html
But even without the historical understanding, the voice of history still nags in the background, and haunts the underground. And there is the raw fear, the same fear the plantation owners felt when a slave revolution created the republic of Haiti, the same fear the Afrikaaners and British felt in South Africa: 'they will rise up and kill us in our sleep (and we will have deserved it). ' We speak of the ancient instinctive fears that cause infants to startle and scream in the middle of the night, the shadow of the predator cat lurking in the back of the cave of a million years…waiting. I think that in the same way we instinctively know that this favored status of ours cannot exist forever, because moral wrongs never can find a stable state in the universe. Talk about Law with a capital 'L,' this is one. A profound insecurity underlies the aggressive athleticism of Western History. It seems that from the very first day, we knew they were numbered. This is particularly true of the United States: those Puritans are a case history of pathological fear and its attendant arrogance. What they reflect dramatically is that beneath every superiority complex lies just the opposite: a great nagging insecurity.

The rest of the above article and fact is explained well at this link....