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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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Hot take: it's ok as a white person to be ashamed of the history and ongoing racial injustice in the USA. Like I'm not ashamed to be white but I'm also not going to pretend like white privilege isn't a thing or that we don't have a history of violence against people of color in our nation.
I think "white guilt" is just a turn of phrase that's been co-opted into something it is not. As a matter of fact I think as white people maybe we should feel some guilt, it's a good thing to feel guilty about all the heinous shit that's happened and still happens because of a person's skin color. That's the appropriate feeling to have when you're reading about say idk the prison industrial complex and feeding black men into it as a form of neo slavery.
It's not about feeling guilty for being white, it's about recognizing your privilege and understanding our past and present problems with race as a country.
I'm not american but I understand your point. I think the terms for how we talk about these issues should change though. Because I don't feel guilty, I feel enraged. I want to fix it, I want it to stop, I want to right the wrongs, not because I feel guilt for them. Because I feel ANGRY about them.