An anonymous poll for white people (school, Chicago, claim, Florida)
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3. A poll asked in such a manner CAN EASILY BE SHIFTED OR CORRUPTED because, again, it is asked on a public internet forum. Handle 1 + handle 2 + Handle 3 = 3 votes by the same person.
If you would read my post I said that I wasn't talking about just slavery, I am talking about what us white people still do to this day, to keep the black man down. We still continue to stereotype them, we still profile them, we keep them from better jobs etc... That is stuff the we do to this day, so it is stuff we have control over.
Well if the majority of them didn't live up to those stereotypes, then maybe people wouldn't still stereotype them.
No, I do not feel guilty ONE DAMN BIT for being a white girl. The only thing that invokes guilt within is if I personally did something that warrants regret. Besides, being a first-generation American, blaming "my ancestors" for past US ills doesn't work on me. My ancestors didn't escape the hell of the former Soviet Republics so they could be blamed for the past issues of this nation here, simply because of what they look like.
No guilt here. Maybe that is because none of my family or ancestors have done anything to people of other races simply because of their race. Heck we were not even here during slavery and none that I know of have ever treated people of other races good or bad based on their race, must be because we understand that it has nothing to do with whether a person is good or bad. People are what they want to be, or they would change it, race is something you are simply born with. FYI, the "white guilt" thing the right likes to point out is very rare, the reality is few whites I know feel any guilt of slavery or the mistreatment of other races. The reason is because we have not done it ourselves and rational people do not feel guilt over the bad actions of others, it is not logical thinking.
Casper
You know, if you cannot understand responsibility for something your race did, then I really don't have the time to explain it to you. If you are a white person, it is indeed your responsibility to try to right the horrific wrongs of your parents, grandparents, your great grandparents, etc. WHO DO YOU THINK CREATED THE JIM CROWE LAWS? Your grandparents and your great grandparents' generation.
So to follow this thinking, that we are all responsible to right the wrongs committed by our ancestors, are you going to hold the Africans who were capturing and selling each other to the slave traders, or is it just white Americans that need to feel such guilt?
Liberal insanity. Blacks were sold into slavery in Africa by other blacks. Since that's the case, shouldn't blacks 'feel guilty'?
But you do realize that the form of slavery that the Africans had in mind was a whole lot different than what the Europeans had in mind. Slavery in Africa was basically indentured servitude, a tribe would be conquered by a rival tribe in a war, then the loser would be enslaved yes, but after a period of years they were given the choice to go back to their home land or assimilate into their captors culture. And quite often the slaves chose to assimilate as the African climate made long trips over land quite difficult. They didn't need them to be enslaved for life, I mean its not like the Africans of that time were in the business of empire building such as the Europeans were. The whole European ideology of lifetime bondage where even your children will be enslaved was a foreign concept to the Africans. If the African tribes actually knew what was in store for slaves on the other side of the Middle Passage, they wouldn't have even done that to their worst enemies.
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