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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Being White means always having to say your sorry—There fixed it. This is the Liberal point of view—Whites are the cause of Anti-Gay feelings and laws (forget the Islamic views on Gays). Whites are the cause of Slavery and poverty of Blacks (forget Islamic people who still use slavery) Whites are the Capitalistic people who foiled Communism and kept the workers in chaines! (Forget USSR—Red China etc...)
I too am white and lost members of my family fighting to Free Slaves! They were abolitionists! Hated for it too—but they lost their lives so blacks could be free—What have they done with their freedom? MLK is rolling over in his grave to see how they have abused this freedom.
At the comments:
GreySailor
55 minutes ago
“Yes, all those racist “white” fraternities...meanwhile ask these fraternities how many white members they have: Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma, Sigma Rhomeo, Wine Psi Phi, and Phi Delta Psi. During my college days I walked into the Omega Psi Phi house during rush, not knowing any better...and I was quickly educated as I was shown the door with the comment “this fraternity isn’t for white boys”...”
But since they made it plain they don't like black people, according to liberal wackos they should be condemned by all people and never give a second chance. Mizz Angyal can take her feminazi thoughts and stick them where the sun don't shine.
If you call about one trillion dollars annually slight. (yes, I caught the sarcasm)
I think there are many millions of whites (like yours truly) who when younger felt sympathy for blacks are now consumed by black fatigue. Just don't care anymore.
No more apologies. No more guilt. Had enough. My new three-word reply, “Piss off, bigot.”
Sorry for what ?
I am even more (quantifiably) sorry every year when I settle up with the Government on how much I owe for the privilege of working 100 hour weeks so I can support slothful ingrates I neither know nor am related to.
Sums it up very well.
It goes beyond the old "If you are not a liberal when you are young...." canard.
That is a great site. thanks!
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