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Originally posted by AlphaFrog
I'm white. I can't say I'm proud to be German, Welch, Irish, Checz, Bohemian, etc...because I'm not enough of any of them (My highest percentage is 3/8) to be proud of my "national history". I am a true White AngloSaxon Prodestant mutt. Can I not be proud to be white then? I can't exactly be called racist, being that my husband is Mexican, and my daughter is half Mexican. I am proud of myself as white, my husband as Mexican, and my daughter as Mestizo. And yes, I can seperate my whiteness from superiority and power.
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I like how you said this. I was trying to formulate a response and it wasn't working.
The reality is that I am a white American. I have Irish, Scottish and English heritage. While I did spend 6 months living there, I'm hardly British or Irish, I really am just a white American. I'm not evil, I don't think whites should rule the world, nor do I think it should be ruled by Asians, Blacks or Latinos. This country focus' on race so much we forget that there are VERY few people who are of one ethinic orgin. People travel, they have sex. That is how the world works.
OPhiARen3- when you tell people they can't be proud of being 'white' because it is inherently racisit, at a level you are telling people to deny who they are. You identify me as white, I identify me as white, but you just said white is bad. That frustrates me. Why can't we embrace ourselves and accept each other?
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