Ok, I think I’m beginning to understand. This seems to be along the lines of thanksgiving, when some news reporters want those of us who are in our homes, eating our thanksgiving dinners, to feel guilty because there people who are either on the streets, or in shelters.
Ok, to clear things up, I don’t feel guilty for anything beyond my control. To do so, would be a false since of guilt.
Now, one point I’d like to make, and a couple of questions.
First, you’re right in that nothing can be done about what happened in the past, but plenty can be done about what’s happening now.
Second, what’s achieved by people of color, and other minorities lashing out at all whites? Besides those of us who haven’t done anything racist, there are those who have actually worked for the cause of civil rights. My mother for example, worked for a fair housing agency where first, a Mexican, or Asian, or black person or couple would go into an apartment complex to apply for a vacancy, and if denied, my mother, either by herself, or with someone else, would go in and try for the same vacancy, to see if she/they would also get rejected. Does my mother deserve to be called “whitey”?
And third, back to your opening post, what about Jews? To those with white supremacist thinking, like those in the Klan, Skinheads, and so on, Jews are just as hated as those with dark skin. In fact, also, some of the more noticeable black figures, like Luis Farrakhan, seem to have anti-Semitic tendencies. So it seems like Jews get it from both blacks and whites. Am I wrong?