# Should we let the White Man March happen on the 15th? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 7, 2014, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087 "2014-03-07T07:49:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/41 "2014-03-08T18:47:06Z")
[QUOTE=Whiteout Press] One question to event organizer Kyle Hunt touched upon a favorite topic here at Whiteout Press - America’s misconception of poor, white males. Consider this example - put 10 white males in a room with 9 of them being homeless and penniless and the 10th being Bill Gates. America’s government and media will ceaselessly report that the average net worth of all white males is $7.6 billion - see, all white people are rich. In reality, 9 out of 10 of the above are homeless and penniless. While the numbers are slightly exaggerated to emphasize the point, the fact that the misconception is purposely promoted every day is not. [/QUOTE] There’s something to this. Women’s activists do it too. Men make more money than women! They’ll happily use Bill Gate’s income on the men’s side, and neglect to mention there is a Mrs. Gates who is basically worth half of Bill. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/42 "2014-03-08T20:09:10Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > It’s not my phrase, so I’m guessing here: > National Association for the Advancement of Honkey Mo Fos HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😃 😃 What are Morris dances? Do you have to be finicky until they feed you 9 Lives? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/43 "2014-03-08T23:59:13Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I much prefer the young, attractive women of color who lust after middle-aged, professorial type white men. Do you know any? Ahem. Go find your own, Doc. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/44 "2014-03-09T00:00:54Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😃 😃 > > What are Morris dances? Do you have to be finicky until they feed you 9 Lives? 🙂 That’s funnier than the real answer. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/45 "2014-03-09T07:35:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > All the white men are being killed off? Well, as a very light-skinned black man I find this disturbing. As well you should. [Now where is my kraft paper bag?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_bag_party) ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/46 "2014-03-09T09:03:30Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > :dubious: So, uh, who else would lead something like this? Well, I’d like to believe that not every white man who marches is a racist, homophobe, or whatever. When a geoup of like people march (like the Million Man march that was all blacks, for example) they had stated goals that they were trying to achieve. If women, farmers, blacks, nurses, or whatever march, they usually don’t have a racist agenda. It would be nice to see a bunch of white guys, if they were actually going to march, have a cause that wouldn’t require each one of them to be a racist. What that issue would be, I don’t know. But then again, i’m not feeling compelled to march. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/47 "2014-03-09T14:21:42Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > There’s something to this. Women’s activists do it too. Men make more money than women! They’ll happily use Bill Gate’s income on the men’s side, and neglect to mention there is a Mrs. Gates who is basically worth half of Bill. Your faux-argument doesn’t even make sense. Even if people did use Bill Gate’s income as an argument for women not making less for the same job than men (which they don’t, since it’s not a real argument), _you just said Melissa Gates is worth less than Bill is_, which, last time I checked, is an example of a woman making less than a man. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/48 "2014-03-09T15:25:56Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > Well, I’d like to believe that not every white man who marches is a racist, homophobe, or whatever. > > When a geoup of like people march (like the Million Man march that was all blacks, for example) they had stated goals that they were trying to achieve. If women, farmers, blacks, nurses, or whatever march, they usually don’t have a racist agenda. > > It would be nice to see a bunch of white guys, if they were actually going to march, have a cause that wouldn’t require each one of them to be a racist. > > What that issue would be, I don’t know. But then again, i’m not feeling compelled to march. **WHITE PRIDE MARCH 2014** _(Blacks, Browns, Yellows and Reds Also Welcome)_ Don your shiniest black boots and join this all-inclusive, completely non-racist celebration of white culture! This isn’t your grandfather’s White Power movement! ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/49 "2014-03-09T16:01:28Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Hey, look. I’m an ACLU guy. If a bunch of white men who think they’re the constant victims of discrimination want to march to say so, they have that right. The rest of us white men have the right to point and laugh at them. Indeed (though I wouldn’t be part of that group on account of the “men” part). Freedom of speech isn’t worth much if you don’t let people with unpopular opinions and/or mouth-breathing idiots have that freedom. The best defence is to use your freedom of speech to point out why they are wrong. And if you can entertain yourself in the process, so much the better. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/50 "2014-03-09T16:13:16Z")
Why are so many folks upset by the idea of the albino community banding together to advocate for themselves? They do have some needs specific to their condition (albinism) that can be difficult to deal with, specifically skin and vision disorders. Plus discrimination. Much useful info here: [NOAH](http://www.albinism.org/). ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/51 "2014-03-09T16:25:32Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Everyone knows white men can’t march. > > Wait… that doesn’t sound right. Black guys help the white guys. Wait… that doesn’t sound right, either. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/52 "2014-03-09T19:46:53Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > … giving non-white hidalgos more notice than they deserve. … > [@thenonepercent](#): > > They made sequels to Hidalgo? And wasn’t the original _already_ in color? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding – are the sequels in black & white? Or just white? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/53 "2014-03-16T18:52:46Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > Peacefully at the least? Why is it being denounced as a “hate” march and if it was, so what? March 15 has come and gone… Did this thing happen, or what? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/54 "2014-03-16T19:22:58Z")
Let me [google that](http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/florence/2014/03/15/florence-white-man-march/6460529/) for you. > [@](#): > > The rally, which drew about 10 people … ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/55 "2014-03-16T19:34:19Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Let me [google that](http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/florence/2014/03/15/florence-white-man-march/6460529/) for you. Ha ha ha ha!! 😃 Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/56 "2014-03-16T19:39:27Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Why are so many folks upset by the idea of the albino community banding together to advocate for themselves? They do have some needs specific to their condition (albinism) that can be difficult to deal with, specifically skin and vision disorders. Plus discrimination. > > Much useful info here: [NOAH](http://www.albinism.org/). Provided they wear sunscreen, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/57 "2014-03-16T19:44:45Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > …but if it’s in America people are legally allowed to march around dressed up as outright Nazis if they please. Unless they’re from Illinois. I hate Illinois Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/58 "2014-03-16T19:52:06Z")
Police in Birmingham, AL removed “Diversity=White Genocide” banners from highway overpasses believed to be related to “White Man March”. > **[Birmingham police remove banners stating 'diversity = white genocide' along...](https://www.al.com/spotnews/2014/03/birmingham_police_remove_banne.html)** > >   BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Birmingham police received reports of six banners hanging at various points along interstates in the city today that proclaimed "diversity = white genocide" that could be connected to a national organization trying to... ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087/60 "2020-04-16T15:08:01Z")
Reported. Regards, Shodan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-let-the-white-man-march-happen-on-the-15th/683087.md?page=2)