>>non-accusatory problem-solving
>>In US white/black relations, I can't remember a single case where progress was made - there have been several- where the progress did not involve concessions by white people When you don't have power it's hard to make concessions.
Concessions can be a subset of non-accusatory problem solving. Otherwise they're better described as appropriations... ask the American Indians, or our mutual forebears from the Emerald Isles. But it appears we are unlikely to agree.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
