Slavery, White Guilt, and the Politics of Absurdity

americanthinker.com ^ | 7/8/2017 | Abraham H. Miller

[rktman]

A majority of “white America” are descendants of people who came to America during the great waves of European immigration from 1880 to 1924. Over a hundred million white Americans trace their ancestry to immigrants who passed through Ellis Island, which didn’t open until 1900. Most white Americans are descendants from people who came to these shores long after slavery was extinguished.

The indictment of all white people for the evil of slavery because they share skin color with slave owners is an indulgence in absurdity. We are told not to judge all Muslims as terrorists or all blacks responsible for the crimes of individual blacks. Yet, for whites, the collective guilt is unending. It is propagated in our universities under the now theological dictates of white privilege and white guilt.

[Vaduz]

Agree the scam list is a long one always follow the $$$$$$$
trail.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

In my teen days I saw lots of farmers in New Mexico and West Texas growing cotton and using mechanical pickers.
A few years later I took a bus through southern Arkansas and for the first time saw black people picking cotton (1968) the old fashioned way. Just like in the olden days of 150 years ago.

[Wonder Warthog]

LOL. Our family histories are similar. The "Yankee" side arrived in 1633, one signed the Declaration of Independence and served in Washington's cabinet. Many others fought in the Revolution. One of the proudest family artifacts is an officer's sword from the Civil War (Union). I didn't have the heart to tell my relatives that our family also bought some of the first slaves that landed in Boston.

The southern side got here slightly later, but still pre-1700 (by way of Georgia). AFAIK, the southern side never owned slaves, but some did fight for the South.

So how do I calculate my supposed guilt????

[scooby321]

I saw a smart black man who was livid to to the Black Movement which he was a part of the the 1940's and 50's.

Blasted those lies Slavery and Jim Crow did not cause the unemployment and children born out of wedlock

Cited the blacks sense they took records that Blacks had lower unemployment and children borne in and lived in two parent families that blacks beat whites on those number until Progressive from Columbia destroyed the black family

[I want the USA back]

I have no guilt over things that other people did. Guilt does not jump from one light-skinned individual to another. Liberalism is $hit.

[patriot08]

Slavery- owning another human being- was horrible.
It still exists in many countries, but not here.

None of my ancestors owned slaves- in fact they fought and died to have our slaves freed.
I feel no guilt.