"I'm proud to be white. I bet no one passes this on because they are scared to be called a racist."

[JCanete]

58. well one sense of pride is a counter to the intentional and incidental impact of racism on

diminishing the sense of self-worth of people of color and of women and of people in the LGBQT community, while the other is a means of taking credit for the colonial efforts that domineered and ultimately caused all of that suffering. The former is necessary because it is trying to redress a great wrong that has stripped people of their dignity, there is a literal need to counterbalance the pervasive and degrading narratives about what it is to be identified among any of these populations in the mainstream.

If a white person thinks he or she is suffering at the hands of a dose of reality when it comes to history and current privilege, and feels the need to be compensated with a white pride movement, I submit that that person really truly does not know the face of oppression, and should look a little more closely in the mirror.

Edit: And yes, as Effie said and I regrettably missed including, so many accomplishments of people of color and other marginalized groups have been simply uncredited or credited to the white men who took them as their own. An honest history requires that these people get their due, and it is so important to the psyche of people who are unjustly either fed stereo-types of who they are, or are fed only the "what was done to them" narrative. One is total bullshit, and the other is far from the complete picture. This is about affirming agency and potential, and frankly, stripping away the mythology that may be feeding some of that white pride...when one doesn't see the achievements of others because they have been swept under the rug of history, maybe one's shallow, surface, interpretation of that data can suggest that there must be something special about his race, thus continuing to feed a problematic sense of white pride.