Hey, it’s obvious! The only people in the world that can save us from oppression and servitude are educated people determined to defend the oppressed against the oppressors! In our day, activists have codified this into the notion of Allyship. Here’s how David W. Blight of Yale and fellow wokey congregants probably recite the Creed at faculty meetings today:

We Yalies are the Allies of the Oppressed Peoples in their fight against the White Oppressors.

Of course, it was not possible for the white settler-colonialists of olden time to develop immediately today’s sophisticated Allyship definition, corrupted as they were by sexism and racism and colonialism.