An unholy baptism

What does it cost to assuage the guilt of racism? 

It took Andrea Einhaus years to walk into a Virginia tattoo parlor and ask them to cover up a tattoo associated with white supremacy on her back.

“I have to live every day with the guilt of being brought up racist,” Einhaus told “Nightline.” “You can make strides socially, be nice to your neighbor. … But when it's physically on you, and you're able to see that washed away from your body… It's almost like being baptized.”

Einhaus was only 17 years old when she was tattooed with the mark that’s widely celebrated by hate groups.

“It’s an iron cross,” she explained. “When you look at neo-Nazis today, they might have a swastika tattoo, they might have those two lightning bolt tattoos [or] they might have an iron cross.”

She said that at the time, she was aware of what people might think when they saw the cross, but it “didn’t bother” her.

“It's one of the stupidest things I've ever done,” she said. “I just kind of picked out a pattern and it wasn't intentional. It wasn't for me to brand, on my body, ‘I hate everybody different from me.’ It wasn't to brand on my body some form of a swastika.”

How much guilt can the Prometheans convince us to carry?  This girl obviously had no ill intent, and while probably not a smart decision, the worse decision will always be to accept the lies of condemnation.  This is the eventuality of perpetually living in year zero.  The past has no meaning and the present is a freshly formed prison.  

I suspect that a deeper reason for the guilt is simply because it's a cross and that is unacceptable to the ruling principalities.  She accepted the Lie as her lord and savior, and this unholy baptism is her new proclamation of faith.