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And 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 ago
  What? 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 ago
    How 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.
    • abiox 9y ago
      perhaps you were a bit too ready to bask in some romanticism to really speak to what they were saying.
      • smhost 9y ago
        No, that's not what happened here.