Are you ever ashamed of your race?

I am...all the time.

I think about what "my people" have done to people throughout history...the colonization by Europeans throughout history have been absolutely horrendous...from Mexico to Africa to India to the United States...it absolutely disgusts me.

Does anyone else ever feel this way?

 

I would only be ashamed of my race if I ever did anything to anyone.

I hate what other people have done but I don't base my identity or MYSELF on a race so I find it kinda silly to be ashamed of being a certain skin color.

 

Ashamed? No. Regretful? yes. And all I can do is teach my own children to be better and do better than our ancestors.

 

yes and no,
slavery and oppression have existed since recorded time...im proud of my english, german, romainian, russian, french, irish ,scottish, and dutch heratige..

 

Sometimes when I see a brother on TV getting arrested by the cops, I think "just another dumb stupid ******"


But then I think about how easily that could be me without parents who understood discipline, and the importance of a good college education


Hotwater

 

i know alot of white boys who are the same fucking way...i think its all relative...there are stupid niggers for every color...am i wrong?

 

Yes there are plenty of white niggers, but as you might imagine for me, it's personal


Hotwater

 

well im not gonna beg forgivness for saying ******...

when i think of the word ******, i think of a certain way of living your life...for me ****** is a word, that has a life of its own...

 

*hugs*

 

no
and I think it is absolutely ridiculous to think in such ways

you are not responsible for your relatives
you are not responsible for your ancestors
and you are most certainly not responsible for your whole race
you are responsible for you

and your race does not dictate who you are, it's racist to think so

 

I used to be, a lot. It was a shame what we had done, but I decided to let it go, since I myself did not personally do any of it.

 

as if. its not like i chose to be damn near albino. im not related to the bulk of htem, i had no control over their actions, it was in the past and i certainly dont condone atrocities. im not stupid enough to feel guilty over something i had ZERO control over

 

yes I do and I am... my mom is german... she was also a victim but I cannot help feeling guily/ashamed because of the CONSTANT remarks made to me by non-germans... but I suck it up.... I mean what can I say to defend the germans really? Although it was the German army, not the citizens, and not that it matters to anyone.

 

you can do what the German government does and say nothing =P

 

I hope you aren't saying that how I FEEL is stupid...

Because honestly, that's pretty bogus. Everyone has the right to feel how they feel...

 

and everyone has the right to feel how they feel about how other people feel

as you have the right to feel how you feel about how they feel about how you feel

 

Hey, I'm not sitting here saying that it's stupid to NOT be ashamed, am I?

I think not! :tongue:

 

yes, but you do think it's bogus for her to think it's stupid for you to feel ashamed

either way, if you look up the definition of racist
you will find taht being ashamed of you race and being proud of your race would both be included.

 

No, because I don't see it as a matter of race... it's just all about ignorance in my opinion. And stupidity. And ignorance and stupidity aren't tied to a certain skin colour, tere are stupid and ignorant white people, just like there are stupid and ignorant black, yellow, brown, whatever colour people..

 

I like the way Duck and Kosmic said it.

I am not ashamed of my race. I'm proud to be an American. I am proud to be who I am as an individual. I can't change the past and what other people have done but I have the power not to repeat it.