What Is White Guilt, And Why Do You Have It?

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What is white guilt? It is not a personal sense of remorse over past wrongs. White guilt is literally a vacuum of moral authority in matters of race, equality, and opportunity that comes from the association of mere white skin with America's historical racism. It is the stigmatization of whites and, more importantly, American institutions with the sin of racism. Under this stigma white individuals and American institutions must perpetually prove a negative--that they are not racist--to gain enough authority to function in matters of race, equality, and opportunity. If they fail to prove the negative, they will be seen as racists. Political correctness, diversity policies, and multiculturalism are forms of deference that give whites and institutions a way to prove the negative and win reprieve from the racist stigma.  ~Shelby Steele~

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Disagree! What you call white guilt is really standing up against racism. It's very simple and less wordy than any blatherous excuse you can recite. White people who are racists accuse the rest of us of having white guilt. There is no guilt. Only truth and decency to be had if you want it. You have demonstrated that you don't.

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Disagree!

You disagree with Shelby Steele?

Oh, ROFL!!!!

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I do not know who(nor could I give a shit who) Shelby Steele is. I have seen you throw around "white guilt" in this forum as a way to excuse your own racism and toss shit at those who disagree with you. "White guilt" is nothing more than 2 words used by racists like yourself in attempt to continue being who you are while living in denial that decency exists among other white folks who don't believe in your bullshit. I o believe,however, that white shame exists. And you are a prime example of that. Though you feel no shame, you exude massive amounts of it in your belief system. Shame. On you.

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I do not know who(nor could I give a shit who) Shelby Steele is. I have seen you throw around "white guilt" in this forum as a way to excuse your own racism and toss shit at those who disagree with you. "White guilt" is nothing more than 2 words used by racists like yourself in attempt to continue being who you are while living in denial that decency exists among other white folks who don't believe in your bullshit. I o believe,however, that white shame exists. And you are a prime example of that. Though you feel no shame, you exude massive amounts of it in your belief system. Shame. On you.

I stopped reading right there.  To have a discussion about the comments of Shelby Steele with someone who have never heard of him before would be...well, absurd.

*spits*

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Have you ever heard of Cornell West?  The recipient of the greatest reward for being black in the history of mankind?

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Have you ever heard of "denial of being a racist"? You are a prime candidate for poster child.

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Have you ever heard of "denial of being a racist"? You are a prime candidate for poster child.

Yes, I have heard of it.  I have denied it for years, and I still deny it.

Some of you cannot understand the difference between bigotry and racism.  That's your problem.  Not mine.

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Something happened at Harvard last fall that provides a rare window into all of this. Harvard's president, Lawrence H. Summers, rebuked the famous black-studies professor Cornel West for essentially being a lightweight on a campus of heavyweights. These were not his words, but there is little doubt that this was his meaning. West himself has said that he felt "devalued" and "disrespected" in the now famous meeting between the two.
 
The facts are all on Summers's side. West's achievements are simply not commensurate with his position as a University Professor, the very highest rank a member of an already esteemed faculty can ascend to--a rank normally reserved for Nobel-level accomplishment. West had spent the previous year on leave making a rap CD and chairing Al Sharpton's presidential exploration committee. Privately--that is, behind the mask of the protest identity--few serious black academics saw West much differently than Summers did. Even publicly, where the mask is mandatory, he was never more than "officially" defended.
 
But Harvard itself had created the monster. Harvard did not promote Cornel West to a University Professorship because his academic work was seminal. Cornel West brought to campus the special charisma of the black protest identity--not, of course, in its unadorned street incarnation but dressed up in a three-piece suit and muted by an impenetrable academese that in the end said almost nothing and scared no one. This was not someone akin to the young Eldridge Cleaver, who had a real fire and could really write but who also might be rather difficult in and around Harvard Square. With Cornel you could sit the black protest identity down to dinner amidst the fine china and pretty girls from tony suburbs and everyone would be so thrilled.
 
Here, in the University Professorship, white guilt and black protest perfectly consummated their bargain. It was never Cornel West--the individual--that Harvard wanted; it was the defanged protest identity that he carried, which redounded to the university as racial innocence itself. How could anyone charge this university with racism when it promoted Cornel West to its upper reaches? His marginal accomplishments only made the gesture more grand. West was not at Harvard to do important work; he was there precisely to be promoted over his head. In the bold irrationality of the promotion was the daring display of racial innocence. ~Shelby Steele~

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~Shelby Steele~  Half Black/ Half White (just like Obama)...unless he commits a crime as IM2 likes to say, then he would be on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted, of course...

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Shelby Steele is just another black sellout who racists use in order to try justifying your bullshit. Steele is basically an idiot that the majority of black people ignore.

OBTW On Cornell West and Lawrence Summers.

According to West, during the controversy he was highly regarded in the academic community, "had more academic references than fourteen of the other seventeen Harvard University Professors", and "had nearly twice as many such references as Summers himself."[37]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West

So if West was a lightwieght, what was Summers?

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Shelby Steele is just another black sellout who racists use in order to try justifying your bullshit. Steele is basically an idiot that the majority of black people ignore.

OBTW On Cornell West and Lawrence Summers.

So if West was a lightwieght, what was Summers?

No merit.

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No merit.

It has become apparent that you cannot dispute what I am saying.

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It has become apparent that you cannot dispute what I am making up.

Fixed it for you.

Still, No Merit.

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What you say has no weight son.  And you know it. This is why you have been reduced to playing childish games with the strikethrough function.