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What you are seeing is simply a reflection of what is socially acceptable.
by allthenews 9y ago
What you are seeing is simply a reflection of what is socially acceptable.
- mc32 9y agoSo you're saying whites have the privilege of wishing they had "interesting" DNA history, but others don't have that privilege, even with all they have in say East Asia. I think it's more with social cues and pressures.
- allthenews 9y agoWhat? This isn't about privilege, this is about fashion, and white guilt is increasingly in.
- smhost 9y agoAnd of course, it's not the white guilt that's in fashion. It's the black pride that's in fashion, as it always has been.
- mc32 9y agoWhat? I don't get any of either those assertions. People should be comfortable with who they are. I don't think pride is necessary, but also unnecessary and probably detrimental is to feel uncomfortable with yourself, be that anything, in this case ancestry.
- smhost 9y agoHow can you not understand black pride? The story of the Negro that survived the racist horrors of white oppression, the voice of the enslaved person that became La Marseillaise sung at the Haitian revolution, that became jazz, that became hip hop. The impossible resistance against the whitewashing and cultral genocide, the freedom and liberty earned by wielding the spirit of the Enlightenment channeled through the black experience. Black identity is more American than America. Freedom from taxation against the freedom to exist. There is no comparison. It's worthy of pride. There's dignity in guilt, and it's essential for growth. You really don't seem to understand the human condition.