OT- We Shall Remain - Page 1

Has anyone watched the series   We Shall Remain  on PBS?
I am ashamed to be white.   
And not just because of what my race did, and is still doing to the Indian race, but because of our racism in general.
I'm just having an off day today.
Wishing things were different.
Moons.

 p.s.
Does anyone really think they are supreme just because of their race, its sad.

 

I think all nations and peoples are basically good and born good, but leaders and especially politicians encourage racism even though they don't directly speak it out, it is nice to hear some one feels strong against racism from a (strong developed country).

Ibrahim

I am ashamed to be white.


AAAARGHHHH!!!!!       I refuse to carry the guilt of deeds done by generations past!  I know very, very few actual racists and they are OLD people.

I have Native American blood as well as Bohemian heritage.  My forebears were much more likely to have BEEN the equivalent of slaves than to have owned them. This carrying on about "Your race OWES me because.....yadda yadda yadda. .......    


GET OVER  IT!!!!!!  Quit using the past to excuse your present failures.  Yes. politicians and religious leaders use the "race card" to further their own agenda and obviously it WORKS! Making young whites ashamed of their own blood is criminal IMO. It is also criminal to keep other races simmering in racist anger that "whitey is keeping you down" ect ect.   


Oh, yeah we are sooooooo racist we elected a mixed race person PRESIDENT!!!!!

I have no shame being white, these deeds done were not of my choosing and not perpatrated by me thats why it is history so we can learn from our mistakes. Unfortunetly the powers that be seem slow to learn.

Or i could of just said  "SSDD" but i chose not to as those that came before me. 

What does that mean, anyway, Bob?  I'm fairly web-saavy, but "SSDD" escapes me.

 Same Sh*t Different Day  

Bravo, Okie!!!

Pretty much the only ones still dragging up the race card these days is those who are not white, not those of us who are.  Racism is still very widespread, but it's not among those of us who, by our skin color, are still tagged as racists.  I never owned slaves.  I don't know if my ancestors did, but if they did, that's not my fault and I will not shoulder the burden for it.  Slavery still exists today (ever heard of white slavery, and the sex trade, which also utilizes women from Asia and Mexico, as well as other countries), and until I see someone stand up and scream about that, then I don't want to hear about something that is ancient history.
 
I am what I am, and nothing will change that.  I cannot, and will not, be ashamed to live because a few people that lived a long time ago, owned other human beings and forced them to work (among other things, I know) for them.   If that's what upsets you, then what about Americans today?  We are slaves.  Work, bills, politics, lies...The list goes on.  Who should I blame for that?  Can we sue? 

Don't mean to sound overly irritable, but especially since Obama was elected, so much of what I've seen on TV and read on the Net has been about the staggering amount of white racism and about the slaves from Africa in Civil War era America.  Let it go.  It's ancient history.  Not only do we no longer own slaves in our beautiful country, too many of us have lost most of our moral values, now place no value on the family unit, care only about taking care of those who, in many cases, will not take care of themselves, and only worry about the next new technology, and, of course, worry about the guilt that the current generation of white Americans should carry for the actions of their ancestors.

Crys 

Right on Oki!

 I am white.  I'm also part Cherokee (teensy bit, not enough to get a tribal card).

But it doesn't matter what race I am, I am just plain repulsed by some things that have been done by humans, one race on another, humans on animals, whatever.  So, yes, sometimes I'm embarrassed to be human.

I haven't been watching that tv show but I am very familiar with the Trail of Tears (I think that's what the show is about, right?).  And yes, that incident repulses me and makes me ashamed.  You can rail against "White Guilt" if you want, but if we don't remember and learn from the past we are doomed to repeat it.  Remembering the atrocities that humans are capable of is important.

I'm glad more people are being exposed to the history of the Trail of Tears.

Atrocities still happen, but hopefully as a race (the human race) we are more sensitive to such things than in the past, and we are less inclined to turn a blind eye.  And more inclined to prosecute evil-doers.