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I was reading a book recently about the 60's and how it has had a profound impact throughout our lives, culture, and history.
One thing that came up during a section of the book about the Civil Rights movement. The book's author interviewed countless folks in his lifetime and he talked to some of the most influential folks from the 60's and how things have changed since then.
One person in particular got my mind thinking. His name is Dr Colby Steele. I have read that he is a conservative and his career involves around racial issues, history, and study. He talked a bit about something called "White Guilt". So I decided to look up some more info.
When doing a google search, though, I find that "White Guilt" is a Politically Correct term but it's definition varies depending on the whomever you talk to. It can be the fear of being labeled a racist (which white folks do not want!) or it can be the guilt that is felt by a white person because of what happend in the past (Slavery, oppression, etc.) to other races.
I don't understand this too much but I am willing to learn. Why is this term in use and why should America care? Is it a problem? Is it a solution to something? Or is it just another "label" someone created?
Only left winger nutcases buy the white guilt nonsense. More than likely it was dreamed up by some lefties who were running out of new ideas for research so they could get some gubment grants.
I was reading a book recently about the 60's and how it has had a profound impact throughout our lives, culture, and history.
One thing that came up during a section of the book about the Civil Rights movement. The book's author interviewed countless folks in his lifetime and he talked to some of the most influential folks from the 60's and how things have changed since then.
One person in particular got my mind thinking. His name is Dr Colby Steele. I have read that he is a conservative and his career involves around racial issues, history, and study. He talked a bit about something called "White Guilt". So I decided to look up some more info.
When doing a google search, though, I find that "White Guilt" is a Politically Correct term but it's definition varies depending on the whomever you talk to. It can be the fear of being labeled a racist (which white folks do not want!) or it can be the guilt that is felt by a white person because of what happend in the past (Slavery, oppression, etc.) to other races.
I don't understand this too much but I am willing to learn. Why is this term in use and why should America care? Is it a problem? Is it a solution to something? Or is it just another "label" someone created?
So what's your point? You can't read the definitions and figure it out for yourself? Here's a suggestion. Maybe you would do much better for yourself if you would take an English grammar and spelling course.....
Thanks Joejitsu. I will take that under good advice.
Don't let people convince you its a big deal. The only time I ever heard terms like this is on internet forums, or on Fox News, complaining about how PC schools are and racist against whites. Stuff like "white guilt" is often a talking point of racist trying to prove they are being oppressed. Like I said I imagine that only a few hundred academics and a handful of textbooks ever mention it.
I don't think white guilt is a big issue with most people living today. But I remember when my dad was in the dying process we talked a lot about race and he was fond of saying, "It's only by the grace of God that we were born white instead of black." He was raised in the south and said he remembered even when he was a little kid he couldn't understand why grown black men had to step off the sidewalk to let him, a little white boy, pass by. It did bother him that he was able to move north and make something of himself while most of the black kids he knew in the south weren't offered the same opportunities just because of their color. He'd witnessed cross burnings on front lawns and even saw the KKK hang a black man in the wood when he was a kid; witnessed lots of prejudice in his lifetime and lots of changes after the 60s. I would say my dad had white guilt. I wish he would have lived long enough to see Obama get elected. He would have been really happy about that.
Last edited by Wayland Woman; 11-30-2009 at 06:49 PM..
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