Posted on 03/18/2015 1:07:50 PM PDT by pabianice
Protests against racist policing practices in Ferguson, Missouri and all throughout this country have largely been peaceful. Yet the shooting of two Ferguson police officers last week—a shooting that has not been clearly associated with the protests—has been used to discredit an entire movement, to cast a whole wave of social justice activism as violent and sinister.
A few states away, in Oklahoma, a video showing a white American fraternity chapter singing with reportedly drunken glee about how excluding and enacting violence on black men has laid bare anew a core truth about race in America: being white means never having to say you’re sorry.
The actions of the University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers have resulted in the university cutting ties with the fraternity, but for the most part, the focus has been on the men in the video. Not on their fraternity brothers, or on other chapters of the fraternity, or on the gender- and race-exclusive institution of Greek life. For a largely black protest movement, the ripples of damage spread, touching the entire body of the movement. For the white men of SAE, the laws of physics are different, and the ripples don’t spread in the same way. The conservative gospel of “individual responsibility” is, in this case, a luxury that white people enjoy, but that black people are denied.
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Really?
Proudly rejecting the race card since 1990.
Being liberal means never having to say you are mentally ill.
Whatever, what a whiney piece this is.
Fomenting hatred between races, again.
I am white and I am not sorry, for anything. I can trace my family back to 1600’s and we never owned a slave.
Wow, I learn something new about Honkitude every day! I mean, by simply being white, one is never poor or lacking an education! Now, I learn that Whitey never has to apologise! What next? Honkies can fly just by THINKING about it?
Liberals, you can go through your pathetic lives apologizing for existing. I don’t have the time or the inclination.
But you WANTED to, didn’t you!!!!
But overall, the burden is slight. :)
Makes perfect sense.
I have done nothing to be sorry for.
Being White Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
Yeah pretty much, that’s right.
I haven’t done a damn thing so I’m not sorry for a damn thing.
“he conservative gospel of “individual responsibility” is, in this case, a luxury that white people enjoy, but that black people are denied.”
That’s what happens when you are a slave on the Federal Plantation.
I thought it meant always having to say you’re sorry. :-)
My ancestors didn’t arrive here until the early 20th century and did not own slaves. Even if they had, I am my own person and I know how I have conducted my life. That is the only barometer by which I will be judged: individually. It is no wonder leftists can’t grasp that. They have always loathed individuality.
The entire “white privilege” pantload is just a desperate grab to shore up the race card, which has been swiped so much in the past few years that has become paper thin.
You’re white. Most slave owners were white, so that is all the connection that a Social Justice Warrior needs in order to paint you as a horrible, evil bigot.
Is noticing irony a function of White Privilege? I mean, I need a score card or a spreadsheet to keep track of all this.
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