Yea those mean old black people who's ancestors were forced into slavery are soo cruel to those poor poor white people.
You know what? This is pure unadulterated bullshit.
My relatives had nothing to do with the slave trade. My great-grandfather came here to escape the Bolshevik Revolution and had his name changed from "Kostikovich" to "Smith." My grandfather came here from Germany about 3 years before World War II and went to war against the Nazis, and was part of D-Day. I'm a third-generation American, none of my immigrant ancestors had money nor were they from imperialist countries involved in the slave trade.
Furthermore, nobody living today has been a slave, nor have they been slavers. I've never been a slaver. I've never tried to make someone a slave. (Well, except that one girl that one night...). The fact of the matter is, I have
absolutely nothing to feel guilty about. And I don't care what it is that you say, there's nothing that you can do that will make me feel guilty. Sure, it was shitty that Africans were sold out by their own people and enslaved by a bunch of people. Yeah, that's really shitty. But it's certainly nothing that in any way has anything at all to do with me.
Finally, I think it's pretty fucking annoying when people
try to make me feel guilty about it. Guess what - I have the right to speak my mind in any manner I choose. Free speech doesn't mean that I can say whatever I want, but it means that I have the right to express my ideas and opinions free of persecution. It means that I
should have the right to say whatever I want without offending anyone, because, quite frankly, being offended doesn't make you tangibly hurt. There is no physical damage, and the offense you perceived was actually only offensive because you have perceived it that way.
Sorry if I sound annoyed and pissed off about this kind of discussion. It's because these kinds of things piss me off. I don't have white guilt. Deal.