Do you feel guilty for being white?

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lucas262 · Accepted Answer

I'm mixed, I have white and black family members.

We are all just people.

Culture separates us far more than race.

I dont feel a shred of guilt for anything.

Iv never been a racist, iv never owned a person. Never sold a person. I don't support the BLM movement because I disavow any racist institution.

You know what sounds racist to me.

Whenever I hear about black or white anything. It immediately separates us into 2 camps. In this country we are 1 people.

My family is 1 large family.

I'm also proud of my southern heritage. Love my confederate flag, and out Culture.

You know what progress is?

If I walk around town and ask basically anyone hey do you hate black people? Or Asian or whatever. The odds of someone saying yes aren't very high so congratulations we all hate racism.

We hear people demonize. And pick on a specific race. Shame them, bully them.

That sounds pretty racist to me. But white means evil now? What about the people who protested with MLK, what about the whites whoever fought to free slaves?
What about a white man who freed them?

They don't like to talk about that.

ManOnFire · Accepted Answer

I am black, and I don't want white people to feel guilty for being white. In fact I don't want white people to feel guilty about anything really. Rather I would want them to openly acknowledge that there is still systemic racism (I can only speak for the United States).

I want them to acknowledge that although they often say they're not racist because they have black friends or boyfriends, they will still think that the black guy standing alone on the subway platform might be looking to rob or rape someone, or that I'm less intelligent just because I'm black.

I want them to acknowledge that they are the ones who are on welfare more than people of color even though they think of POC as lazy folks living off the government.

And the list goes on. But basically what I am saying is that I don't want whites to feel guilty but to acknowledge that they still have racist thought processes that don't have to be related to what happened "hundreds of years ago" that still need to change.

ShaTTeredMasterpeace · Accepted Answer

Blame white people for the creation of black pride. Because it was created to uplift ourselves during a time when we were treated like scum of the earth. It was never created to put anyone down. Nor is it used today to put anyone else down. That's the damn difference. No one would have a problem with white pride if it wasn't built on hate.

Shamiah02 · Accepted Answer

Ya mad that racists ruined the term white pride by coining it as their slogan. The group of racists that did this was so infamous for their deeds it has really left an impact
Gay, black, and Asians didn't decide to use being proud of our race as a slogan for racism.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Not at all. Why should I feel guilty? Did I do something wrong?

LikeALog · Answer

Why? My great grandfather and grandfather immigrated from a Mediterranean country. They were both treated like crap. My great grandfather struggled to feed and house the family.

My grandfather was a teenager. He couldn't attend school because he didn't speak English. He learned to read and write on his own.

My father did better but we lived in the inner city. Our neighborhood was fully integrated. My best friend was a black guy. We bonded because we both wanted a better life.

We worked after school and summers. We saved our money for college. Our grades were good enough to be accepted. Again we worked part time and full time during summers. Party? No way, need the money for living and tuition.

We both graduated and have great careers. Being white didn't help me. Being black helped him a little. Does any of this bother me? No! I'm happy we both were successful.

Being white gave my forefathers and me no special advantages, so I have no reason to feel guilty.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

No and from your bit above, a lot is down to your average white person not calling out bigots in society.

in the UK we get fuckwits who are simply racist cunts, using the George Cross and their skin colour to abuse other colours, other sexualities, basically anyone that does not believe their rhetoric. Part of the bit about getting back things like ‘white pride’, St George Cross etc is by uniting against people that use it in a racist manner.

A person should never feel guilty about their skin colour, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, etc.

equally a person should never be bigoted against the above.

MCheetah · Answer

Wikipedia got taken over by SJW's a while ago. Like, 2016 when Trump was running for president. They don't even PRETEND to be neutral, factual, and subtle anymore, like they at least used to appear. They are just flat-out f*cking lying now and using opinionated and judgmental language. It's insane how sh*tty Wikipedia articles now sound and how inaccurate and far-left biased they've become.

And I don't even support "White pride" (or any other racial pride; being proud of your ethnicity is dumb as hell). I blacklisted Wikipedia on my browser months ago. If anything tries to direct me to that website, it gets blocked.

t-8900 · Answer

Nope I'm proud of my Celtic, Roman, and Lombardic roots and make no apologies for it. Anyone who feels guilty for being any race is a pathetic drone. I don't think I'm better than anyone else for my ancestry but my ancestors did everything they did and now I'm here with their blood through my veins. Warriors, Poets, Merchants, Farmers, Politicians, Lords, they were all these things. They played a role at the bottom of their societies and at the top. They were rich and they were poor. They've survived invasions, conquerors, plagues and world wars and still here I am. Everyone's respective people's have a similar story. Thats why when people tell me they hate their heritage and wish they were something else I tell them we all have one theme in common, we're all survivors. We're here because our families were survivors. Where others perished our people endured. Be proud of that fact and be thankful.

Anonymous · Answer

Hell no… I have my fair share of struggles, just as anyone else. I personally had nothing to do with anyone’s oppression, why would I feel guilty?

I think if everyone saw this type of politics for what it was, and the way it perpetuates a victim mentality that prevents people from seeing the truth and from making real progress for themselves, we’d be living in a much better world. It’s a cheap power grab and keeps people in lowly, reliant states…

No matter your skin tone, ethnicity, or ANY of these identity-based traits or ideas, only YOU can make your situation better. It starts with you, your attitude, your work ethic, the way you treat people… self-awareness.

The more the government has tried to open doors for people, the more it’s simultaneously hurting people financially and economically… a lot of people don’t see it or believe it though because they’re college educated are kept “fat and happy” by the system.

Shizunk · Answer

No, I know institutions and companies these days think pushing these ideologies is the only allowed way, but most individual people don't buy that, I certainly don't. There is nothing wrong with what I do or think regarding race and no amount of stupid accusations will change that.
I don't care about race. I am strongly patriotic and consider that to be my ingroup. If you speak my language and value some of the good things about my country, you are "one of us" regardless of race. If you live elsewhere, value different things, speak a different language and like a different place, no amount of whiteness will help me feel any kind of connection to you. Race means next to nothing, culture and virtue on the other hand, both things you can change to a degree, matter a lot.

TheorionMage · Answer

Why? Do YOU feel guilty for being 'Homo Sapiens'?
Do YOU PERSONALLY recall being given a choice?

I grew up in a VERY 'faction-ated' family dynamic;
where one developed a defensively razor-sharp tongue.
Physical bruises eventually heal; psychological wounds not as readily~

Once in my late teens, in a fit of my Scorpio mother's anger
she blurted out: "I'm SORRY I ever gave birth to you!"

To provide her 'perspective' I COLDLY replied:
"I DON'T recall being given any choice in the matter.
Dad bought you a mink coat in gratitude, and YOU took it!
So might I suggest 'WE' make the best of it!!!"

Stunned, she shut the fuck up! ~ >:(

Sweetlindacoolturds · Answer

There have been multiple instances of white shaming as a reaction to racial motivated protests, but I am able to recognize them as part of a reaction and I won’t feel ashamed. I wouldn’t feel either if I happened to be Asian, black, Native American, or really any race

DaveJord · Answer

This a is highly rasist post, question and view piont. I am white, straight and American. So I am Pro- white, Pro- straight and Pro- American and not anti anything.

I don't agree with your definitions, and being PRO- YOURSELF doesn't make you rasist just because you're white.

notwoke · Answer

Not in the least, when am I getting my reparations? I lived in a great, safe town (not rich) until diversity moved in and the shootings started and all the good people who could leave got up and left. Now my mothers house is worth less than it was 25 years ago and she has to pay for security monitoring and be inside after dark. Story repeated all over the country. How many trillions of tax payer dollars have been sunk into blacks for free programs to help them get ahead? I want my refund. How many whites have been denied a job in the name of affirmative action ns oh, the last 80 freakin years? I have the opposite of guilt. Gimme my money

NamerOfStars · Answer

I'm of Irish extraction and have a modicum of knowledge of the cultural history of the US- enough to know that my being considered "white" is a firm rebuttal to both the old-style racists AND the new.

Even if that weren't the case, I'm also Catholic, so I'm Mithridatized against guilt and shame.

Wraith_Cemetery · Answer

No, I'm Irish and we suffered for over hundreds of years. We suffered underneath the Romans, we suffered underneath the British Empire. I don't feel any guilt whatsoever. The only guilt I feel is that I was born into the wrong time. I wish I was among the glorious fellows who fought against the mighty British Empire. I would've been so proud to die with them, fighting against the filthy Brits.

Sjjsjs · Answer

Let me guess you are a black person who is mad at whites because our ancestors slaved you.. for fucksake get over it.. what our ancestors did isn't in our control.. it's in the past.. get over it.. we can't help that our ancestors was dicks.. it's no reason to hate us.. you never even experienced the slavery anyway because it was like 200 years ago or something

So no I'm not guilty... I only feel guilty if I'm playing rap music when a black person walks past.. cos I feel like I'm stealing from his culture with my hip-hop fashion and hip-hop music

snackthatsmilesback · Answer

If someone actually gives me shit for my skin color again (happened maybe 2 times? in my life) I think I will say "want me to fix that? I can go get some shoe polish."

If they have an actual thing they want me to do then heck maybe I'll do it, but I not just gonna "feel guilty" that's stupid.

Grond21 · Answer

No, not at all. I'm not going to take the guilt that another person would feel on my own shoulders. I'm not going to take the guilt of a previous generation, even if they were my ancestors, which they are not. I'm not going to buy into a racist ideology like Critical Race Theory. I'm not going to pretend that I have done anything wrong just because of the color of my skin

ohshee · Answer

The greatest evil on this planet is ignorant C ignorance because that means you're mine won't grow anymore it's stuck right where it's at ignorant people are dangerous because they don't understand anything

To answer your question I don't have a clue I wonder if ignorance people feel guilty for being ignorant with a small brain

PeterQuillsAlive · Answer

These are such stupid concepts that perpetuate society.

Let us all take pride in our heritage, our religions (or lack), our preferences.. Etc.
Be it White, Black, Straight, Gay, Christian, Muslim, Athiest.. etc etc.

To deny one the adoration of their own birthright is in itself a prejudiced concept.
Not to mention its just being a prick

You feel pride for being Black? AWESOME!
You feel pride for being White? AWESOME!

Apulu_3 · Answer

I'm Asian not white and I can say that not all white are bad because only few are racist. The whole community doesn't changed for few like the whole China is not responsible for corona only few are.

Mamaganja · Answer

I’m black and white.
I’ve experienced racism by my moms side of the family (the white half) and sometimes even my mom as a kid. Because of that, I don’t identify more with my black half and family. I’m not going to sit here and lie.. I don’t like that I have white in me 🤷🏽‍♀️

Blackcupcake · Answer

no one should feel guilty about anything unless they personally have done something to feel guilty about. I'm not carrying the guilt of anyone else's actions... and I think that applies to everyone. be your own person and own up to YOUR own actions, regardless of what race you belong to.

FTnWo · Answer

Fuck no, why would I feel guilty for being white?
The only people that should feel guilty are the people that do wrong on purpose, people that hurt other people or any living creature on purpose (brown recluse and black widows excluded) people that are pieces of shit like rapists and cho-mo's and just low life people. The color of skin or anything else that someone is born with should never matter.

Anonymous · Answer

I don’t feel guilty for being white. However, I do feel shame over our obviously racist past and sometimes racist present. There’s no doubt that great racial injustices were inflicted on black and native Americans especially and that the underlying sentiments that fueled those still exist in a lot of people today. In light of that past, it shames me to hear it and see it today.

tatianamay · Answer

Why would someone feel guilty for being born as a particular race?

God_of_Thunder · Answer

No, because I, personally, have done nothing to feel guilty  about . Feeling guilty over the actions of others, in which I was not involved, nor could have done anything to prevent, is idiotic.

Exterminatore · Answer

The only thing I feel guilty about is not collecting the scalps of people who label ALL white people as oppressors and automatically racist.

Not only are people who believe such things racists and delusional but also profoundly dangerous. Ideas like those are exactly how the Holocaust happened.

Brokenheartedx · Answer

I feel guilty for fk all, nor do i feel guilty for the past.. I kno my heritage.. I kbow how far back my lineage goes and i know for a fact my ancestors where piss poor... So if anyone wants me to feel guilty they can go take a fk to themselves

WhiteBoyChill · Answer

I take pride in being white. As a race we have accomplished a lot in world history and have led many of the world’s greatest and most advanced civilizations and we continue to do so into the present day in many places.

Including my own iredeemingly racist country which has millions of brown people flocking to it every year in search of a better life.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, absolutely 😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭 my ancestors killed a bunch of people of every race... Especially there own, like literally every other race 😭😭😭
And I'm responsible. Why? BECAUSE IM WHITE MOTHERFUCKER... *sniffle* I totally did all those things, even though only a fraction of my ancestors did those things decades to centuries ago and I had literally nothing to do with it or had no knowledge until I was a teen 😭😭😭WAAAAAAHHHH

Anonymous · Answer

It's only in backwards little America where such things really matter. But that is because you have no real culture, you have no real pride in your own history. And nothing of note to your names. Most of you badly uneducated twits don't even know where the Washington DC is.

In Europe such things as skin tone isn't that relevant. Your culture, your history, etc is because real Europeans take pride in themselves. American mutt breeds don't.

zagor · Answer

Not at all. I am responsible for what I do, and, if I had kids, maybe partially responsible for their actions. Other than that, I am no more responsible for transgressions past and present committed by other white people than I am for those committed by black or Asian people, or dolphins.

Grubhub · Answer

How come when it comes to white you people always put black and gay up there. If you people don’t see color then why do you put black to everything white? You do see color, racism wouldn’t exist in many cultures as bad if it weren’t for white america. They say Indians and Asians are the most racist and I have actually had less racial trauma from them than whites.

Sualina · Answer

My dad is a white from france and my mother is from dominican 🇩🇴 who came to France to live, I'm half white, so I don't know the answer to that question madam 🙃

whirled_up_girl · Answer

I'm technically mixed ethnicity even though I just look white but I don't see why I would feel guilty over something I had no biological control over.

JacobRogers · Answer

I think the term should be American pride.. Just because our skin is white doesn't mean we don't have a bloodline of over 12 different ethnicities. Everyone should show each other respect until or unless we have a good reason not to.

Sparks32 · Answer

No! do you feel guilty for being Black and flooding into white countries uninvited, dragging us down and ungratefully expecting whites to provide you with a much higher living standard then your people could provide for themselves?

dray995 · Answer

No. Why should I feel guilty for being something I can’t help being? It isn’t my fault some other white people are racist. I’m not responsible for how they act or treat people.

Freespirit777 · Answer

If your a white, heterosexual, man; it seems like you are automatically the enemy of the people. I think that sometimes this “Equality” is prejudice against others. I really don’t care how they think of me, I know I am a decent, loving person.

nawtee_me · Answer

Hell No I do not feel guilty for being white. I am proud of who I am. It is not like I had a choice in the matter either, did you? I am who I am and I try to be the best that I can. If people do not like it, that is on them and not me.

Uannoyme · Answer

No. I haven't done anything that would make me feel guilty.

Mia-Wallace · Answer

Absolutely not. I love my pale skin and white family.

Astarlessnightsky · Answer

Nope, its just the way my skin looks since i was born.

Voodoo69 · Answer

Absolutely not! Why would I feel guilty over my race? Black or white we are all just trying to get through it all. Don’t let the color of your skin dictate how you feel about yourself or other. It’s you actions and how you treat each other.

Keyboardkat · Answer

Never! Why should I? No one chooses their parents! No one chooses what race they will be born into. I never oppressed anyone, so why should I feel guilty?

Anonymous · Answer

No, If anything, I went from loving everyone to realizing that not every groups contributes equally to this country. I would never have said this before 2012 but some groups are mostly made up of sycophant parasites who do not contribute and destroy our civilization

sawno · Answer

No, they try but guilt tripping is not effective on me.

burlen · Answer

Why should you anyone feel guilty of their ethnicity?

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Any white person that does is a self loathing moron.

_Troian_ · Answer

Lmao these explanations seem very dumb. Everyone has rights to be proudful about what they are, it's not being racist.

PuNishant · Answer

Only stupid people feel guilty of crime they never commit 😂 Will you blame me if a guy rape someone in some different country.

AviatorTom · Answer

Nope, and I don't identify with being white. I identify with being HUMAN!

Stoner710 · Answer

No, I don’t feel guilty or proud it just pigment to me

jshm2 · Answer

So called "white pride" has too bad a history, kiddo. Stay in school and learn.

Kaneki05 · Answer

To be guilty over that would be accepting a form of tribalism when I fundamentally disagree with tribalism so nope.

Seinna · Answer

Nope, I couldn't be happier. Though to be fair, I'm not that attached to my race as I am to my nationality and my nationality is white.

Wester1967 · Answer

Hell no. I am an unmelanated radical. Most unmelanated people define their identity by being shameless about bringing the terrors of the earth (John Kennedy language) to the rest of the planet

TheFlak38 · Answer

It's ok to be white.

N192K001 · Answer

lol  Nope. How can I feel guilty of being White if I'm not? I'm Asian.

jasco · Answer

Why should someone feel shamed for something their born with

FunkyMonkee · Answer

What the fuck for? Do YOU feel guilty for being a human?

Do you feel guilty for being white?

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