White Guilt

This is not all about you.

 

when did I say it was?

 

There aren't many white people around where I live and sometimes I wonder if the black women at my gym are just being nice to me because I'm the only white person in aerobics class and they don't want me to think they're being mean to me just because I'm white. I live not too far from where the Eric Garner incident took place.

 

White Guilt?

Really, what did any of us do to consider that we should have white guilt?

The term 'white guilt' is only a repercussion of many years of being told that any degrading history is our fault. So it becomes ingrained in ourselves and accepted that everything is our fault.

Obama and the BLM group have taking this racist terminology and thrust us back to the pre Martin Luther King days. Instigating all is "whiteys fault".

The black community really needs to sit down and reflect how far we have all come since those days and re-realize that we all are human.

I firmly believe 99% of people are not racists, on both sides. It is just the overblown media that continues to over emphasise the few incidents that they come across.

Contributing too are the few that cannot live without racism because with out racism, they are just another person walking down the road, without any identity; oh how terrible.

 

They weren't the biggest customer - most slaves went to Brazil.

Slavery is associated with the US because it was made illegal long after it was illegal in most of Western Europe.

 

http://youtu.be/xA1ZU8LDpVE

 

Your over-the-top gesture no doubt had them tongue-tied. They just couldn't adequately express their appreciation so they remained silent - the ultimate complement.


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Early colonial Americans, were in fact mostly Europeans.

That is the same reasoning Australians use; most early Australians were in fact Europeans and majority were convicts, yet they choose to leave that tidbit out of their historical heritage; so much so that they will argue the point. History shows that the Aboriginal of Australia had a repressive time in colonial Australia; much in the same way the Native Indians had a debilitating time in early Colonial America.

That is not to say one is better than the other but it is to show that although early Slaves were infact mistreated, other cultures and even localized Native Indians lost entire families, homes and land. Even today they are a repressed entity: "given" land to reside on as if the gesture fixes all; a slap in the face of humanity; yet they seem to forgive and move on.

Include early Spaniards enslaving, demoralizing and killing entire civilizations in Central and South America.

African Americans need to begin to accept and forgive. That is the only way to move forward. That concept is not on "White" people to do but is needed to be done by the "Black" community. Racism is only used to keep separation of the masses alive.

As Nox said, early America were in part a large client of the trade. No different then being inundated with 'special offers' from wholesale companies upon opening your own Deli. "We have what you need, never mind the morality; we can make a profit and you can sit and sip Iced Tea and watch your own wealth rise".

 

I found out recently one of my neighbours has been saying my boyfriend and I are racist because we didn't say hello to him one day when we walked by. I often don't notice people unless they talk to me first and my boyfriend hates talking to everyone regardless of skin colour...

 

i've made some really good hires, and i do feel some pride when they do their job above expectations. on the other hand, i've also made a couple shitty hires and did feel a little guilt (really more like embarrassment) when they made it clear that they suck.

the whole "proud to be an american" thing does confuse the hell out of me though.

 

Your neighbor sounds like a real gem.

You and your boyfriend would get along well in my neighborhood because no one talks to anyone

Hotwater

 

Actually, I've been talking to my wife about this a lot. We are moving to Africa and trying to decide if we are going to get a full-time maid/cook.

I will admit it feels a bit like exploitation.

 

Offering somebody a job and paying them???

 

If you pay her normally you probably make a person/family very happy. It's a good job. If you don't exploit that situation it isn't exploitation!

 

like I said, people are myopic and have short memories.

 

I have lived in neighborhoods like that when I was a kid. It's a lot different than where I live now. I was thinking about this a few weeks ago and this may seem odd to some people but......I don't have a single friend who isn't white. Not one. I had a good conversation with an Asian guy at our local brewery a couple of months ago but aside from that.....I can't even remember the last time I had any meaningful interaction with anyone who wasn't white. That really kind of blew my mind. It's nothing intentional. There just aren't many people around here who aren't white....at least none who I know. It's much different than the diversity of growing up in Chicago.

 

OH MY GOD!!! Don't you feel guilty about that?
You better get yur ass out there right now and make some token friends of differing races before the militant anti-racist begin calling you a racist!

 

I don't really feel guilty about it at all but I have to admit.....when I thought about that, I did think to myself "Wow! Maybe I should become friends with some black people!"

But what's so remarkable to me is that I know a lot of people in different circles and I bet many of those people don't have any friends who aren't white.....otherwise you'd think we would see them at parties or other functions.

 

I don't know any black people who show interest in having white friends. I never see any black people at a private social event.

 

Why would I allow myself to have such guilt for something I have no control over?