Complicity and Diction

It's worth looking at the assertion that every white American is "complicit" with racism. Being complicit calls for a deliberate choice. Being complicit is choosing to be involved in an illegal or immoral act, especially with others. If you tell the white girls in the fifth grade that they are complicit with racism, you are telling them that they all have made deliberate choices to be racists. That's probably not what you intend to claim.