Blaming Whitey

American Thinker ^ | January 29, 2010 | Robin of Berkeley

[neverdem]

Why white is beautiful too.

In the early '90s, my most P.C. friend boasted about attending an anti-racism workshop. Although the event was called "Healing Racism," I silently dubbed it "Blaming Whitey."

As she described it, whites and blacks faced each other on opposite sides of the room. Whites guiltily told tales of being racially insensitive, and blacks berated them. Then blacks recounted stories of racism while whites bowed their heads in shame and apologized.

My friend pronounced the day as healing. I thought it sounded sadomasochistic.

I chalked it up to "only in Berkeley." But over the years I've heard of more and more such happenings.

In states both blue and red, incoming college freshmen must attend social justice seminars during orientation. As though 18-year-olds don't feel crappy enough about body fat and pimples, now they have to recoil at the color of their skin.

The targeted audiences for these blaming and shaming sessions are getting younger, which is predictable. Every cult from the Moonies to the Left recruits from the malleable young.

Even kindergartners are being groomed to be the littlest of community organizers. One of my twenty-something clients cried herself to sleep in second grade after her teacher graphically detailed the conditions of slave ships. While this lovely young person never harmed a flea, somehow she became responsible for genocide.

Blacks in this country have been subjected to true horror in the past. This terrible fact of life cannot be changed.  

Punishment is not possible for the evildoers; they are long dead. But that doesn't stop Obama and the Left from exploiting grudges and grievances for their own agenda.  

Whipping up racial antagonism harms us all, but it especially harms the youth. Hopeful, eager black children can turn angry and demoralized from constant reminders of bigotry. White kids may start believing that their race is evil.

Fostering friction benefits the Left's goal of redistribution. To achieve socialism, they need whites under their thumb. The Left's modus operandi: Crush white people's spirits. (The Left excels at this -- they've been trampling on blacks' self-confidence for decades.)

By convincing whites of guilt by association, the Left can induce them to act against their own best interests. Sheepish whites will give up first-class health care and sacrifice Granny for reasons of "justice." Or they'll embrace illegal aliens, even if this means a degraded standard of living.

Brainwashed Americans will even risk their own safety and excuse crime. ("It's not my mugger's fault.  He's a victim of white privilege.") They'll offer up their own children to hostile public schools for the utopian vision of multiculturalism.

They'll do anything, in fact, to get that scarlet letter "R" (Racist) off their backs. Most disturbingly, guilty whites will support a president who obviously despises them.  

Think I'm exaggerating about Obama?  Just witness his contempt on any given day, whether he's demeaning Middle America, or Sen. Scott Brown's truck, or the Cambridge Police.  

And behold Obama's friends: Eric Holder, who is revolted by our nation of cowards, and Michelle Obama, whose enraged speeches, caught on tape, can make your skin crawl.

For possibly the first time in our history, we have leaders who can't stand most of the people who elected them. And Obama and his crew are working overtime to get whites to detest themselves too.

On the one hand, I understand the hatred and desire for revenge.

Our country's history is different from most others'. Germany exterminated millions of Jews -- but few Jews now live there. The Khmer Rouge massacred much of its population -- but those killed were other Cambodians.

In the U.S., blacks coexist with whites, a race that once enslaved them. And the media, schools, and the government take every opportunity to pick at this racial wound. 

So I recognize where this antipathy comes from -- the shame of slavery and segregation. However -- and I'm sorry if this sounds harsh -- Obama and friends need to get over it. They need to start living in the world circa 2010.

You see, I am not one of those shrinks who encourage clients to rage for years about their rotten parents. And I don't believe that bad childhoods exonerate bad behavior. Simply put, people remain in bondage when they allow the past to become their identity today.

The social justice campaign against white America is itself unjust. No matter how great someone's suffering, retaliating against the innocent is inexcusable.

White privilege seminars are a forum for propaganda, a way to bully and browbeat. They are the elitist version of the New Black Panthers and their billy clubs. 

As a psychotherapist, I see the damage done to young people: There's Shannon, a teen, who had a full-blown panic attack when a teacher fulminated against "white supremacy."   

And then there's Lara, a Midwestern girl who has had her sense of self-worth decimated since arriving in Berkeley for college. Once confident and secure, Lara now takes antidepressants.

Last week, Lara said to me the following: "When I first came here, I had no idea of all the terrible things white people have done. I've come to hate white people. I hate myself. Sometimes I fantasize about killing myself so there would be one fewer white person."

This is what it's come to.

I said the following back to Lara:

"Your life matters. You have a right to be here, no matter what anyone tells you. You are a precious gift to the world. Don't let anyone ever convince you otherwise."

And the same words apply to every one of us:

To blacks rendered permanent victims;

And whites tarred as racists;

To the old being cast out;

And men viewed as obsolete;

To women being sexually degraded;  

And those of faith being jeered at:

"Your lives matter. You have a right to be here. You are a precious gift to the world. Don't let anyone ever convince you otherwise."

A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a psychotherapist and recovering liberal in Berkeley. To protect client confidentiality, names and identifying information have been altered.

[FreedomPoster]

I use that line as well. Also, over a decade ago I was absolved of White Guilt by Ken Hamblin, a conservative talk show host who happened to be a black man. It stuck.

Here, I found a hosted copy of the certificate Ken used to have on his web site:
http://www.radical-conservative.org/certificate.html

I could probably not work in corporate America, as I would not put up with some of the crap that would come out of the typical Fortune 500 HR department.

[6SJ7]

And then there's Lara, a Midwestern girl who has had her sense of self-worth decimated since arriving in Berkeley for college. Once confident and secure, Lara now takes antidepressants.

Last week, Lara said to me the following: "When I first came here, I had no idea of all the terrible things white people have done. I've come to hate white people. I hate myself. Sometimes I fantasize about killing myself so there would be one fewer white person."

Liberals have replaced Original Sin with the Sin of Being Born White.

[JimRed]

Children from an interracial couple always get lighter NOT darker so you're looking at the sunset of the black race.

In another two million years or so, we'll all be a lovely shade of beige, but we'll surely find other things to quarrel about!

[pawnshop dave]

For me it was American Motors circa 1980.I had just gotten out of the Air Force and was looking for a job.They used the EXACT same sentences!!!

[onedoug]

Race vs Judeo-Christian values. Make mine the latter.

[az.b1bbomberfxr]

Of course, blame whitey...Remember we threw 200 million blacks overboard during the slave trade...ROTFLMFAO.

[Eska]

Ya, but since I have only had the experience of watching those orange flashes directed at me and have those bullets whizzing past me; from a minority pointing a gun at me in an unsuccessful robbery;;;; that has become my worldview of sorts.

[I see my hands]

Yes, I am familiar with the words. I'm wondering why you thought they were appropriate to use.

[redpoll]

I have actually stood up in a roomful of teachers during a workshop and called these attitudes “racist.” You’d be amazed at the number of people who suddenly support you at times like this. Yes, it takes guts, but I’m finding now in my fifties that I’m far less willing to put up with silly crap inherent in some of these beliefs.

By the way, use Alinsky methods when doing this. Accuse the other side of a lack of tolerance for others. Mention that diversity includes everyone. Talk about “justice” even for little white kids. Confuse liberals by mentioning that Dr. King and Malcolm X were your heroes as a youth, and they taught you that we are one human family. In other words, use the values of the opposition against them.

Oh, yes, and make a veiled reference to state antidiscrimination laws and how they apply to discrimination against anyone of any race, which includes the “pale penis people.” (Which always gets a laugh, and, as Alinsky tells us, ridicule is impossible to defend against.)

Fight back, always.

[SJSAMPLE]

Exactly.
As I read this, I was thinking of “The Killing Fields”.

[fanfan]

Wouldn’t know ... never had a gun pointed at me by a WHITE PERSON

I have. When I was mugged at gunpoint, the officer asked what color the perp was. When I answered "white", his eyes widened, and he asked "are you sure"? LOL.

[the invisib1e hand]

Ya, but since I have only had the experience of watching those orange flashes directed at me and have those bullets whizzing past me; from a minority pointing a gun at me in an unsuccessful robbery;;;; that has become my worldview of sorts.

You get points for acknowledging the subjectivity of your viewpoint.

Incidentally, the "minority" you're referring to could easily be a white male in many neighborhoods.

[chasio649]

yo

[greeneyes]

I have read that there were actually some black people who owned slaves. Anyone ever hear that before?

[wardaddy]

and your point is that even if whites commit predatory crimes at a mere fraction of blacks and we are on a thread about race baiting that you still feel compelled to shout it from the rooftops “but crackers do it too”.

yeah they do on occasion but they are hardly the problem that some minorities are when it comes to violent crime proportionate to the population as whole

it’s not complicated...may be uncomfortable for some here

[calex59]

These “public confession/humiliation” sessions are straight out of Chairman Maos revolution handbook.

I believe they were called struggle sessions, where the people had to stand up and declare how terrible they were and that they would more or less toe the party line from then on. I believe it was a weekly occurrence.

[wardaddy]

Children from an interracial couple always get lighter NOT darker so you're looking at the sunset of the black race.

Good lord...platitude of the month.

It all depends on which DNA donor you are comparing to doesn't it?.....man this forum can be so queasily PC at times

I first saw this notion here 10 years (memphis belle..since banned)ago that breeding the white race into beige would fix everything. Are folks here so brainwashed to not realize paternal racism when they see it?

The poor black man...why shucks he can never be whole unless whitened up and for God's sake...those evil dominating whites and their nasty European traditions...why hell they need to be bred down...that'll fix it.

pardon me but whoever here buys that crap is as bad as that pointy capped mythology which they rail against while they preen about their righteousness...

count this here peckerwood out when it comes to breeding myself out to suit such idiotic tomfoolery

Idiocracy

[the invisib1e hand]

and your point is that even if whites commit predatory crimes at a mere fraction of blacks and we are on a thread about race baiting that you still feel compelled to shout it from the rooftops “but crackers do it too”.

nope. simply noting the presumptions.

[dixiechick2000]

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[Eska]

I was sorta thinking on those lines myself but temper that with reflection on the good minorities I've known throughout my life.

I live in a relatively low income rural community where there hasn't been a murder in almost 30 years; and that was a drowning. I doubt if that can be said about many minority communities.

I have been the only White Boy in Nativeland for a few years myself; experienced the hate you dirty White People and everybody should experience the reverse racism;;; does one good. When it becomes criminal violence such as murder; that's crossing the line in my opinion and I don't much care what anybody thinks.