I think being "woke" ought to make white people feel bad

[wryter2000]

2. Hogwash

First of all, why did Zappa want to be black. Did he think he'd get something out of it?

Second, I learned about slavery, the holocaust, the genocide of the people who lived here originally. I never, ever felt anyone was blaming anything on me. I felt plenty about it. Anger. Sadness. And sometimes helplessness in my inability to do much to change things.

I never felt anyone blamed me. I never felt I'd done anything to create these horrors. I do recognize the privileges I get from being white, and I speak loudly to white people who want to deny their white privilege.

I do what I can to change things. That's all I can do.

I continue to feel anger, sadness, and helplessness. I do not feel shame. I do not feel picked upon when someone points my privilege out.

On the morning after Trump was elected, I thought, "I hate white people." That was just anger speaking. I don't hate white people, and I don't hate myself.