If you truly are a "good white person" you ought to feel responsible for the crimes perpetrated by the institution of white supremacy.
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You should only feel GUILT for what you personally have done to perpetuate it. But you are responsible for the institution.
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And while I'm at it, it doesn't have to be all doom and gloom YOU'RE BAD AND YOUR ANCESTORS WERE BAD.
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Some of that is necessary, but only as a part of achieving a bigger and better goal: authentically multicultural liberal democracy.
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America is in a unique position, has a unique opportunity, to build, imo, the world's first truly multicultural liberal democracy.
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We have a chance to TRULY be bound together not by "blood and soil" but by an idea, by a dream of a nation for all the people...
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By all the people, for all the people. And pursuing that hopeful future requires reckoning with white identity, with our dark past...
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But you don't have to be so afraid of that. You really can be hopeful about it, as you would be about any potentially painful challenge.
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And I really wish that our white celebrities would start modeling this sense of humble responsibility, and eager adventure...
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Rather than just providing us with models of white guilt which like... thanks for the apologies, girl, glad you're on our side...
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But guilt and apologies a) alienate other white people and b) don't... really... do much? A sense of responsibility does much more.
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