White Guilt

[Len]

Is any of the white people here ashamed of your race? there was a debate at another board about this zso figured i'd bring it here. I feel bad about it sometimes. It sems like we've always been the opressors. Slavery, civil rights, etc. I'm certainly not proud of my race. You can't choose it, so why be proud of it.I've unofficially changed my self to 50% black, 25% hispanic, 15% Asian, 9% arab, and 1% caucasion. I'm like a melting pot.

[KickMcCann]

I think its kinda of simple-minded and tribalistic to look at everything in reference to skin colour. Am I ashamed of my race? Do you mean the Human race? I'm neither proud or ashamed of it; it has done plenty of horrible things and plenty of great things.

If you look back at the beginnings of civilization, then zoom forward to our present day, you might notice something. In the beginning, humans associated themselves with people who looked like themselves, this is because humans were fairly simple-minded and had no reference by which to judge other people. So all the humans organized themselves into tribes based on location and appearance, tribes that were more like competing insect colonies than civil societies. But as the Human mind developed, ideas were born. And from ideas came religion, philosophy, political theories, and the ability to question and ponder the status of the human condition. So instead of relying so much on phyiscal appearance, people organized and judged others by their ideas. Obviously, the latter is superior to the former. The only problem though is tribalism. People in groups adopt ideals, these ideals may be very good but the tribes may only apply the ideals to themselves, as a reference to the disregard they have for people in other groups. This is steadily fading away.
In the future, no one will care about the skin colour, ancestory, religous beliefs, nationality, political temper, or titles of other people; we will judge one another by the content of our character.
In conclusion, it is ignorant and tribalistic to judge myself or anyone else by shallow, material things like skin pigmentation.