Only white people can save themselves from racism and white supremacism

washingtonpost ^ | June 19, 2015 | Baynard Woods

[PROCON]

I am white. I was born and raised in South Carolina, a state to which my grandmother’s family came in the 1600s. They owned slaves. Part of her family were Pinckneys, which means that someone in my family may have owned someone in the family of the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who was killed in the terrorist attack on Charleston’s Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Wednesday night. Those same people who owned his ancestors were likely involved in, or at least aware of, the suppression first of the Stono rebellion in 1739 — which resulted in mass executions and the placement of the severed heads of rebels on stakes on the road outside of Charleston and in the Negro Acts, a tightening of slave laws, including the outlawing of drums. And they were probably also involved later, in 1822, in suppressing the Denmark Vesey rebellion, which was centered around Emanuel. When that revolt failed, the church was burned and Vesey was executed — probably to the relief of my land-holding ancestors.

There were also four white people arrested and executed for their role in Vesey’s plot. I can’t help but think that, had there been more of them, the tragic course of South Carolina’s history may have been different, and perhaps we would not have bred terrorists such as Dylann Roof, the alleged shooter.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Of course, 99 percent of southern whites will never go into a church, sit down with people and then massacre them. But that 99 percent is responsible for the one who does."

It's more like 99.9999% percent of whites won't do that.

What utter, insipid drivel this guy is pushing. Would this moron say that 99% of Muslims are responsible for Muslim terrorism? Would he say that 99% of backs are responsible for every crime committed by a black? The Washington Post is a complete joke, an embarrassment, to publish this crap.

[RedHeeler]

Apparently, you don’t know statistics, seattle.

[RedHeeler]

Every Muslim is held accountable by Allah. Moron.

[x1stcav]

Let’s see. I’m half Czech and half Sicilian. I researched and googled and can find no reference that any of my relatives ever owned a negro. Therefore, I have no white guilt.

I have three standards as to people with whom I wish to associate:

Are they productive within the economy and society?

Are they nonviolence prone?

Do they subscribe to middle-class American norms and values?

If so, they are my brothers and sisters.

If not, I avoid them.

[Joe Boucher]

Hey white folk,
Quit appologizing.
Stand up and be proud.
As a whole you work hard and live mostly Christian lives.

[trebb]

More apt to say that only White people can save themselves from the overt racist hate of Whites by those who haven’t a clue of the real problems.

[nobamanomore]

A large portion of the slave traders were.....Arab Muslims. Most of the slaves were captured by competing African tribes, and transferred to the Arabs, Obama’s family being part Arab and Muslim were almost surely involved in the slave trade, as that is how they converted. The Africans who are Muslim were largely converted because then they couldn’t be enslaved themselves, and did business with the slave traders.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Slavery is associated with a peoples greatness actual or developing. American slavery existed during the period of time we were expanding and conquering a continent. Its death is associated with the closing down of great expansion.