>
>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.

true I like that answer. honest.
>>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.


Very true.

>>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.


Yeah it isn't written, but I don't necessarily see it as a negative view, i see it more as a realist view.

>>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.

Ok. so now you see why my view is as such.

>>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.


Actually I do remember reading that it's the story of them finding out about sex. buuuuuuuuut it was the beginning of an era.
>>What do you think makes people look at you and me and think
>>that you are better?
>
>ignorance.

can't argue with that.

>>How does that make you feel?
>
>sad for them.

that either.

>>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.

yeah it kinda makes me sad too, i do wonder sometimes if it could really be true when i marvel at the things that happen around me. But i know better. I believe that things happen for a reason although unknown to us at the time, only time can and will tell.