White people of saidit, do you have white guilt?

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

"White guilt refers to a belief that white people bear a collective responsibility for the harm which has resulted from historical or current racist treatment of people belonging to other racial groups, as for example in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, European colonialism, and the genocide of indigenous peoples."

No I do not

You can say 'the whites' collectively are responsible in the sense that it wasn't 'the asians' who did those things, but this does not mean that if some white people, or even the majority of white people do something bad, anyone else with that skin color is now responsible for their crimes. That would be stupid

[–]raven9 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

So if that is white guilt where is the black guilt for their part in the African slave culture that was the foundation for the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade in the first place? Sure whites were wrong for taking advantage of it to procure slaves for American plantation owners but the bottom line is if African slave culture had not existed there would not have been African slaves for sale in the first place.

[–]Rob3122 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Who created the slave culture?

[–]raven9 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Africans. They were enslaving each other for thousands of years before Americans started buying them.