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Originally posted by randomname
people celebrate and take pride in their culture or their religion, not their skin tone. latino's take pride in their spanish heritage and culture, not because they are brown. italians take pride in their country as do dominicans and many other people around the world.
but to specifically be proud because your skin tone is white is completely different to what other people celebrate.
be proud to be american and celebrate american culture, not the color of your skin tone.
Originally posted by Inclusius
reply to post by mayabong
regarding comments about "the jews": in my experience, every time someone says something about "the jews" (as if they were some monolithic, group-think construction like "the Borg") every time i hear or read "the jews are conspiring to..." or "the jews who benefit from..." every time i hear that kind of thing, it occurs to me that you only have to replace the words "the jews" with "the monied class" or "the powers that be" or even, simply, "The Rich" and you immediately make the comment infinitely more accurate and simultaneously infinitely less mean, racist, bigoted and ignorant
Originally posted by mayabong
I've been thinking about this alot lately. Why can every other culture celebrate their culture in the US. but if whites want to celebrate their culture or if they are proud of their heritage, they are automatically a racist?
I realize that whites haven't had the best track record but neither have all these other cultures.
Whites are meant to bear the guilt of Slavery when it is a documented fact that Jews were at the Heart of the slave trade. (although you wont see this in a Speilberg movie). Newport, Rhode island was the center of the Slave trade, highest jewish population in America and the oldest synagogue in the US. (Brazil and the Carribean slave trade were also dominated by jews)
They have no problem celebrating their jewish heritage.
Hispanics can celebrate their culture freely and happily, even though their history is just a dark as whitey's with all their killing of natives in south and central america.
I'm just wondering if this guilt injected into the white race over and over again has a deeper agenda. Kinda like the catholic church instills guilt and fear to take away your power.
I think every culture should be able to celebrate their heritage freely. Just wondering why whites are not allowed by the powers that be.
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Originally posted by mayabong
I've been thinking about this alot lately. Why can every other culture celebrate their culture in the US. but if whites want to celebrate their culture or if they are proud of their heritage, they are automatically a racist?
I realize that whites haven't had the best track record but neither have all these other cultures.
Whites are meant to bear the guilt of Slavery when it is a documented fact that Jews were at the Heart of the slave trade. (although you wont see this in a Speilberg movie). Newport, Rhode island was the center of the Slave trade, highest jewish population in America and the oldest synagogue in the US. (Brazil and the Carribean slave trade were also dominated by jews)
They have no problem celebrating their jewish heritage.
Hispanics can celebrate their culture freely and happily, even though their history is just a dark as whitey's with all their killing of natives in south and central america.
I'm just wondering if this guilt injected into the white race over and over again has a deeper agenda. Kinda like the catholic church instills guilt and fear to take away your power.
I think every culture should be able to celebrate their heritage freely. Just wondering why whites are not allowed by the powers that be.
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Between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Originally posted by cj6
reply to post by mayabong
What exactly have whites had to fight for or struggle for?? Umm..nothing!! They moved from place to place slaughtering natives and taking over. Is that what you wanna celebrate?? If theres something specific for whites to celebrate then please enlighten me...
And i agree that whites dont really have a "culture" thats just my opinion.
Originally posted by Killface
reply to post by crimvelvet
You are absolutely correct, the only way for America to survive is if people start looking at themselves as Americans, not African-Americans, not Latin-Americans, Not Asian-Americans, just Americans.
We claim to be united under our flag, but we preach division through multiculturalism.
People may claim America has no culture or heritage of its own, but the reality is we are shaping the American heritage and culture, it is in its birth, and we as Americans get to decide what it is.
Originally posted by jfj123
reply to post by mayabong
Being white isn't a culture, it involves the amount of melanin in your skin.
I'm white but I don't celebrate my "whiteness" because my cultural background is polish, hungarian and welsh. Those are cultures.