On white male, hetro privilege.

[Ecumenist]

26. You know what Bart? You've got a problem. Noone is asking you to walk around in sack cloth & ashes

only to recognise and understand that there are members of your race,,,,THE HUMAN RACE,,,who don't have to option to enjoy a life where one finds oneself vilified for even daring to defend oneself against something that someone in your position could without so much as a second thought.

Why would or should you feel guilty for something you haven't done? The sardonic manner that you so easily display makes me wonder and I'm sure places some into the minds of others who read your post. Guess what Bart? MOST black Americans have ALOT of white ancestry. In my case, I have 3 greatgrandparents who were white. My husband is. But because most of us who wear alot more Africa on our faces are AUTOMATICALLY suspected of being something nefarious in one way or another. Perfect example was Katrina when the water breached the levees.
When people went into the stores to try to find food and clean water to survive, the headline was completely different depending on what color the face was carrying the supplies.

For whites , they were FINDING FOOD AND SUPPLIES TO SURVIVE THIS CATASTROPHE but for people who looked like me? WE WERE LOOTERS, CRIMINALS AND ANARCHISTIC! The most ironic thing is that, at least in one instance, these people were coming out of the same store. These were people who were just trying to survive a natural disaster in a situation where the government was days away for most but that was how we were portrayed...as criminals, even though we were dong the same thing as a last resort. Of course there were criminals, there ALWAYS are but there was a a photos that showed black folks and white people both suffering equally and just trying to hold onto to something.

No, noone is asking for your guilt. Obviously, you don't believe that you have something intangible, yet as valuable as a trunk full of gold. It's America's shame but it's something that absolutely fact. My caramel brown skin stamps me with a genetic Scarlet letter, something that really was the luck of the draw, a biological spin of the roulette wheel, not based on anything I've ever done to anyone. If this isn't true, why is it when someone like me commits a crime, a brad brush is applied to everyone who looks like me, "well, blacks commit more crime, sell more drugs," etc ad nauseum. However, when the latest serial killer is captured, NOONE ever says, well, that's what white people do, they're cannibals, (j.dahmer),love hunting human prey, etc. I don't buy into either screwy viewpoint but it's the truth.