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Being White Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry (gag!)
New Republic ^ | 3/18/15 | Angyal

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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To: Luke21

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...)


41 posted on 03/18/2015 3:33:09 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Resolute Conservative

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.


42 posted on 03/18/2015 3:35:15 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: pabianice

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”...”


43 posted on 03/18/2015 3:42:47 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: pabianice
Wow...the writer of this screed found some white people who don't like black people. I suppose she thinks there aren't any black people who don't like white people. At any rate, the whites at the fraternity didn't go out and assault any black people. I guess singing a racist song is far worse than physically harming somebody. (snicker)

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.

44 posted on 03/18/2015 4:27:52 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
"burden is slight"

If you call about one trillion dollars annually slight. (yes, I caught the sarcasm)

45 posted on 03/18/2015 4:31:18 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: doorgunner69
"no sympathy"

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.

46 posted on 03/18/2015 4:35:30 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: pabianice

No more apologies. No more guilt. Had enough. My new three-word reply, “Piss off, bigot.”


47 posted on 03/18/2015 4:37:29 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: pabianice

Sorry for what ?


48 posted on 03/18/2015 4:40:47 PM PDT by Carry me back (.)
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To: pabianice
Oh, but I am sorry. I am sorry that given incredible opportunity, even "field levelling" accomodations which should have catapulted an entire people to prosperity, that so many choose to live in squalor, destroy their families, and nurse at the great Government teat--and then blame their choices on others who have given to the point of personal pain, whether they wanted to or not.

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.

49 posted on 03/18/2015 4:44:15 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: driftless2
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.

Sums it up very well.

It goes beyond the old "If you are not a liberal when you are young...." canard.

50 posted on 03/18/2015 6:14:14 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: pabianice

That is a great site. thanks!


51 posted on 03/19/2015 6:13:22 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
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