Will the unending struggle for freedom and justice ever end?

In the 2015 Atlantic magazine, there is an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates titled "Letter to my Son".
At the end of the Atlantic excerpt, Coates urges his son, Samori, whose name means struggle, to continue the unending struggle for freedom and justice in America even though there is little prospect for victory.  "We are captured. . . .we cannot will ourselves to an escape on our own.  But remember the struggle, in and of itself, has meaning."

For American blacks, this is tragically true.  In America, Coates can only promise his black son struggle--not freedom and justice.  "With liberty and justice for all" is only an empty mockery because justice has never been closely tied with freedom.  The white American church has not brought freedom and justice together as Jesus exhorted in Luke 4:18-19.

Coates writes to his son: "Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free.  Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains--whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains."  Then freed slaves could walk off the plantation, but this turned out to be a hollow victory.  As soon as those freed slaves crossed the boundary line of the plantation, they were instantly homeless, food-less and landless.  So for hundreds of thousands of freed slaves, this meant a battle with disease and soon death.  Freedom to die, not freedom to live.  One historian estimates as many as a million freed slaves soon died because there was no justice that accompanied their freedom.

Today in 2018, for some blacks, freedom now means a middle class standard of living.  Great!
But, for many blacks, in 2018, freedom means poverty so for those blacks the struggle really is a struggle with not much hope for the future.

Coates sees little prospect for whites repenting of their 400 years of racism.  White supremacy reigns, most whites are arrogantly self-righteous; there is little sign of massive repentance, massive restitution and massive repair of the damage done to black individuals, families and communities.  That's why Coates wrote to his son, "We are captured".  The white church has not led America towards repentance, restitution and repair, so white superiority, white oppression remains natural and normal.  Self-righteous whites are not likely to repent, restitute and repair.  That's why Coates admonition to his son can only be struggle, not victory.