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I don't know anything about this guy. But, I do know that white guilt doesn't exist and is an invented term to disparage white people who express any view that white people or government should be involved in solving the problems in this country that are the legacy of slavery.
He's preachy, but more or less correct. And anyone who knows anything about him knows that he says that it doesn't matter whether or not white people feel guilty, they just need to help fix the problems caused by white supremacy, past and present, because they'd be better off for it as well.
No such thing as White Privilege unless legislated or actively enforced by the community. While White Privilege existed during Jim Crow, What we have mostly is Majority privilege. Those that are the biggest population get the most recognition. This contrasts with White Privilege in Latin America where the White minority is overrepresented in the media. In the US, while White is seen more, minorities are actualy overrepresented in the media.
Too many people confuse burdens with privileges. A privilege is an advantage given, that is beyond what one would have if segregationary tactics weren't involved. A burden is the opposite. If a White person would get a bank loan at 10% in an all White neighborhood, and then some Blacks and Asians moved in and the Asian gets it at 10% as well, while the Black person gets it at 12%, that is a Black Burden, not a White privilege.
I constantly hear how Whites have a privilege because they can go into a store and not be followed by suspicious sales reps, or because they can hail down taxis. That is not a privilege. That is a standard. If there were twenty people out there of non Black and Non-White ancestry, and all were being ignored by Cabbies, and then one White person hailed a cab and all Cabbies stopped for him, then it would be White privilege.
The vast majority of White Americans do not have privileges. In fact, the stigma created because they supposedly have all these privileges has been exploited by the elite for centuries. First with petty privileges, during slavery, reconstruction and Jim Crow, that led to a huge divide and conquer success, and now by both race card mongers and White liberal apologist mongers alike. Race card mongers use petty perceptions of superiority to foment separatism to a disenfranchised population, and White apologists, seek to bolster their standing among Non-Whites by pointing the finger and claiming all types of supposed privileges for even the poorest Whites.
It has created a vicious circle. Who wants to grow up being vilified by the media as innately privileged, and evil, through no wrongdoing of their own? Especially when they are poor and struggling with their own burdens? White Nationalism, at its heart, is a group of people who has lost a lot of its ethnic heritage through massive multigenerational inter and intra-national migration.
Most have no idea of their roots, except for a vague European. And to celebrate that identity: Whiteness/Europeanism, is immediately branded as racism. Yet every other group is allowed to celebrate some sort of ethnic pride. Ethnic pride is not something evil if it isn't compounded with ethnocentrism, xenophobia, prejudices and scapegoatism.
But if it is not allowed to exist in a healthy state, it will exist in an unhealthy one.
You can't dam a river without an outlet.
Every White kid who is vilified growing up is a potential racist. And it has nothing to do with what his parents taught him and everything to do with a self defense mechanism from being accused every day of doing the evils that people who just happened to look like them perpetrated over a half century ago.
This is no different than White Supremacists here who blame all Blacks or all Hispanics for the misdeeds of miscreants within their group.
White Apologists are as much to blame for this vicious circle of hate, as are White Supremacists, Black Supremacists, Nation of Aztlan, etc.
Anybody that dwells on the subject of racism and race is bound to be a divider and is best ignored. They'll try to exploit and now even create problems just to earn a living. I never heard of this guy but I imagine he's in the same category as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, David Duke, Eric Holder, Barack Obama. We're past these people, we're better than what they believe.
Anybody that dwells on the subject of racism and race is bound to be a divider and is best ignored. They'll try to exploit and now even create problems just to earn a living. I never heard of this guy but I imagine he's in the same category as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, David Duke, Eric Holder, Barack Obama. We're past these people, we're better than what they believe.
This Tim Wise guy has been around for years and he is getting rich and profiting off of the very people he claims to be fighting for or helping. Tim Wise is basically doing what many do except it's not doing or helping anything and his only main audience soaking up what he says like candy are the people he claims to be speaking for or helping. So that means people who feel that they are being oppressed are not having their voices heard from their own bodies, but through a fake faux liberal trying to make money off of them. Lol
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