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In reply to the discussion: Dear White America: Its time to get the message [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)when what I am doing is taking the word used at its actual meaning.
White America means White America, not "some" of White America.
That's a fairly straightforward interpretation, and NOT a misinterpretation. In the same way, if somebody started talking about "odd numbers" and then later tried to say "well, I only meant prime numbers, not ALL odd numbers." Then I would logically reply, that they should have said prime numbers in the first place and we would not need to have this discussion.
As to what white pride looks like, it would sorta be the absence of "white shame".
Wiki says it is mostly used by white racists. However they quote this "Philosopher David Ingram argues that "affirming 'black pride' is not equivalent to affirming 'white pride,' since the formerunlike the latteris a defensive strategy aimed at rectifying a negative stereotype"."
But it seems to me that there is a broadly held negative stereotype about white people. One of my distant cousins expressed this in a book I recently read "Inheriting the trade"
"If I were black, I think I'd be angry - not only at what took place over the past few hundred years, but at white people who don't have a clue what's going on today." p 54
This white person thinks black people should be angry at white people, and he quotes a black person going even further.
"'Throughout the world Europeans have sought to dominate, exploit, rape, plunder, and control others.'" African American PhD student at Harvard p 79
This PhD student at one of the most prestigious universities in America has somehow, somewhere "learned" that Europeans are evil.
He quotes another cousin of ours who said this "She [Katrina] says that one legacy of slavery for white people is that we don't notice racial inequality because it's too painful. 'When you do notice, it's so upsetting that all you can do is hate yourself.'" p 124
All you can do is hate yourself.
Well, that's not quite true though. Because you can hate other white people too. You can even hate them because, unlike an enlightened and aware person such as yourself, they do NOT hate themselves.
Yet I note that a Ghanaian is quoted, suggesting that hatred of whites is NOT the right path.
"'Sometimes I think the African Americans who come here leave with hate. That is not helpful. It would be better if people would use their energy to make the world better.'" Abiko Eghagha (Ghanaian?) 121-22
So yes, I do reject the hatred of whites and the self-hatred of whites, even though I have no use for white supremacists.