The thoughts of Viking, an Ulsterman of Norse and Anglo-Saxon heritage, a proud European:
When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, I recall hearing a speech by a black American preacher whose name I am too lazy to look up. It went along the lines of: “the red man can get ahead, man. Yellow can be mellow, black won’t be held back, brown can stick around” yada yada yada, you get the picture and probably remember it better than I do. Despite being incredibly crass and tasteless, the speaker also looked forward to the day when “white will do what is right.”
My brain froze up at this point, so I don’t know what followed, but I do remember being deeply offended by this statement. And in such a public forum, surely this was inappropriate and insensitive? Much has been made of anti-white racism lately in the blogosphere, and here was firm evidence of the sentiment in action.
What the speaker is saying, in essence, is that all the other races, as he so brilliantly characterises them, are being held back by the wicked white man, who himself must learn to stop doing what is wrong and embrace what is “right”.
I may have got my wires crossed here, but was it not white people that just elected Barack Obama president of their country? Is he saying that this was wrong? Or was it some other activity of white people that he believes is “wrong”?
I think I am defective in some way, as I do not suffer from, and never have suffered from, “White Guilt”, that belief that “we” have destroyed the world for “our” own ends and must eternally pay for it as a result. The part that is hardest to accept is that it is not other ethnicities that conjured up this notion, but we ourselves. Or rather, those who claim to speak for us. The reason I do not suffer from this affliction, is partly because I happen to think that “we” (whatever that means) have contributed greatly to the cause of humanity, and have managed to construct progressive and prosperous nations throughout the world.
Since World War II, when the atrocities of the Nazis became well-known, Europe has surrendered to this way of thinking; That we are defective, that we are inhuman, and that we are the scourge of the earth. Now, Nazism and its atrocities are no more representative of “white”, or European, culture than of any other, and we have no need to feel guilty about who we are. But that is not the way things have turned out. We have used our tolerant, liberal culture to allow our societies to be flooded with intolerant people, perhaps in the naive hope we can change them?
We have allowed minority interest groups to dictate to the majority through bullying tactics, while democracy is based on the very idea of majority rule and the collective wisdom of all of the people. We send billions in aid to corrupt regimes that starve their own people, at the behest of our own citizens who wish to assuage their twisted senses of guilt and responsibility, thereby creating the world’s largest welfare states in Africa and around the world. We belittle our own achievements and try to seek out nobility in other cultures, or rather our rose-tinted interpretations of them.
Our leaders simper and swoon over those who tell us how much we are oppressing them, while they demand payment from us to preserve their own sick societies in compensation. We punish our people for expressing their identity for fear of “offending” certain groups, while we allow those same groups to trample the human rights and freedoms we have established throughout years of wars and conflict against tyranny. We teach our children that all we have done in the world is wrong, and that the ultimate good is to “respect” the un-respectable.
And for what? It is the erroneous and morally bankrupt belief that our “generosity of spirit” will change those around us, while in reality they mock us. Our magnanimity is seen as a sign of weakness, and our culture of tolerance is viewed as a cultural vacuum to be exploited by those who share none of our values.
This self-hating so-called “Liberalism” is really our old friend Socialism rearing its ugly head once more. The self-righteousness of the few is used as a stick to beat the shamed masses into submission, until all that has been accomplished by Europeans in the world is either ascribed to other peoples, or is absorbed under some kind of new communist world order, or Islamic caliphate.
Why do I not suffer from White Guilt?
Because I am aware.
Acutely aware of how brutal and intolerant this world is. Man’s inhumanity to man is all-encompassing, runs like wildfire through every human civilisation on earth, and seems to know no bounds. Amidst the cruelty, genocide, torture and enslavement that occurs daily on this planet, some countries have found a better way. Some people have grown tired of oppression and inequality and have built societies, at huge cost to themselves, that hold the evil to account for their actions, that try hard to spread fairness and justice even beyond their borders. By no means all, but most of those countries are populated in the main by white people, and while I am far, far from being a Supremacist, I remain proud of what “my people” have achieved.
In spite of its many ills and injustices, colonialism brought far more good than evil, rescued millions from abuse and poverty, and made the world a better place. Europeans did not invent slavery, but we ended it – the only people to do so. Our societies are more tolerant, open to others, and respectful of minorities than any on earth.
And how do we know? Because we’ve met them.
Widespread exploration and an era of discovery led the white man into contact with every other society on earth, the only ones to do so. And we didn’t like what we saw. There was no Prester John anywhere to dazzle us with his superior civilisation. We learned that Atlantis was a myth. Only the Chinese managed to impress, with Marco Polo waxing lyrical about their remarkable achievements whilst finding time to invent his fun swimming pool game.
So, when public speakers make remarks like the one above, they would do well to consider the alternatives to living in America.
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It’s nice to see more and more of these popping up. I know there’s many that agree with this, including myself, and I’m looking forward to this getting the attention it deserves. As long as it’s done right. The last thing I want to see if a bunch of huge organizations dedicated to the white mans’ plight. That leads to negative responses and separating yourself to gain any type of advantage defeats any type of unity.
I think it should be obvious from the vast array of ethnic pressure groups that exist — NAACP, ADL, NCLR and dozens more — that non-European ethnic groups in this country both Identify with their ethnicity AND Understand that they have such a thing as "group interests." Only persons of European ancestry have unilaterally disarmed as an ethnicity in the political realm. As a result, by 2043 (probably sooner) we will be a minority in the country of our founders, and in about 150 years (assuming the current rates at which non-European murder Europeans) we will be utterly and completely extinct.
This is not about "hate." It is about each and every people on this planet having a right to territory and survival that is neither superior to, nor inferior to, that of any other.
Forget guilt: it is high time for European-Americans to wake up and understand that if they do not wake up and assert their own ethnic interests, they WILL disappear.
Some people get hung up on culture; but let me pose you a question. Is there any country on earth that was formerly run by Europeans but is now run by non-Europeans where you would want your children to live? Zimbabwe? Haiti? South Africa? Culture is meaningless without the people who are descended from those who created it.
White Boys will back-lash shortly.
Well said,we need more people to proud of our achievements.
Us Europeans have done fantastic things,we have created great countries,technology,science etc.etc.
We are under attack from other and are own race,its time to stop this constant battle.I and many others are sick to death with the way our countries are run,we are classed as second class citizens in our own land.
I am British and proud of my heritage and all of our hard work my ancestors have done to create our society but as of late the Marxist government has been destroying our Britain almost to point of no return.
I am British and proud. The European peoples have advanced science, education, social welfare and medical science to name but a few. Slavery? the Arabs were taking slaves long before us, Egypt ,Rome and many even more distant civilizations did it. But we ended the foul practice and that fact no one seems to want to mention.
I don't want their thanks but neither do I need to apologise for anything.
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I never owned a slave and I have never thought it was right.
I have no control over what my ancestors may or may not have done.
I have enough responsibilities just being responsible for myself.
I never understood the white guilt thing either.
Voting for Obama permitted many Americans to absolve themselves of being racists, thus proving they are racists since race motivated their vote. We now have the white guilt president. My guess is that a second time around many of these folks will be able to say to themselves, "Well I voted for a black man once so I am not a racist, so now I can vote based on issues and character."
The new American Fad is black. Put blacks in high positions, over-represent them in culture, etc. Everyone wants a black friend because they are so cool! :(
Modern day white guilt has caused the Caucasian to not look at the character and individuality of the black. No, modern day white guilt tells the white to simply love and adore the black simply because he is black. It is negative to both whites and blacks.
A great example of white guilt is the Wichita Massacre. It involved two black men going on a killing spree, peaking with the brutal torture and execution of 5 whites. This news did not reach outside of Wichita. But what really gets me is:
The episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit “Dominance” is based on this case. Brothers Charlie and Billy Baker terrorize, sexually humiliate, sexually assault, and murder a group of strangers during a dinner party. In the episode, the Baker brothers are played by white actors.
In 2005, Dimension Films purchased a horror script titled “Wichita” from first-time screenwriter Scott Milam. Darren Lynn Bousman was hired to direct. Though fiction, the events of the film are based closely on the Wichita Massacre incident. However, in the script the perpetrators are portrayed as white men in their 20s and 30s, and their victims are a racially mixed group of African-Americans, Native Americans and whites. The film remains unproduced.
WHITE actors in both cases! Isn’t white guilt great!
Americans will come to deeply regret their ‘guilt-vote’ for Obama. Just give it time.