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53389, RE: Ok....do the white okp's really feel hidden guilt because
Posted by TommyWhy, Thu Jun-30-05 05:05 AM
>of what their people have done over the centuries to other
>peoples?

I have felt guilt about that... still do sometimes. I've been ashamed to be white, although I try not to be anymore because no amount of shame or guilt can undo what my people have done.

>I mean do you really feel guilty about it? And if so, do you
>still take advantage of your priviledge?

I was under the impression that white privelege can't be turned off... I guess I could talk to every individual I deal with and instruct them to treat me as if I was not white, but I don't think it would work.

>How do you feel when you look around you and realize that
>there are a people who are severely downpressed with no real
>hopes of the tides ever changing unless there is a mass
>holocaust...because of the actions of your foreparents?

The future isn't written, I don't share your negative view of it to be honest. See below however.

>there is a whole sect of people who are extinct and a whole
>other sect where they are so downpressed that there is
>literally no hope left.

How do I feel? Honestly, it's too huge to even wrap emotions around. Sad and angry I suppose. Regretful, definitely, but hopeless to do anything about it.

>Is it just survival of the fittest/most manipulative? is it
>god's will? Is it the luck of the draw? what is it?

It's luck of the draw I suppose. If contact between West Africa and Europe had been strongly made a mere 50 years or so earlier (or perhaps later), or if the horse had been native to the Americas, the world would be completely different. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We've seen it in every society from the beginning of time. The story of Adam and Eve eating the apple isn't the story of the birth of mankind, it's the story of the birth of civilization.

>What do you think makes people look at you and me and think
>that you are better?

ignorance.

>How does that make you feel?

sad for them.

>How does it make you feel when others say you have no soul and
>that you are a heartless and cold people? A reptilian race?
>Do you ever look into yourself and wonder if it's true?

That makes me a bit sad sometimes, other times I laugh it off. I know it to be untrue.

>hate monger's have long preached that you have no rythm and no
>heart no sense of family or of the collective divine and
>physical powers---
>do you believe it?

no.

>Do you look at other cultures and wonder where is yours? where
>is your connection with the divine?

no, I've got that stuff covered.