In hindsight I realized that my emotional response to that article is similar to yours.
Actually, my response was not emotional. At least not wrt. the article itself. I meant to imply that the article serves no real purpose, because it's basically just stirring up White Guilt even though there's no reason for the vast majority of Westerners alive today to feel any.
White people in today's Western societies are most decidedly not racist. We're so hypersensitive about racial issues, and will ostracize anyone for showing even a hint of racism that it's simply absurd to suggest that we are the problem.
For me when I engage in the dialog around race I feel there is an expectation that white people need to take on the burden of guilt.
Yes, this is the problem I was snarkily bringing up.
I don't really know how to feel about this.
How about.. annoyed and frustrated by the irrationality and double-standards etc?
I think the biggest problem preventing society from making real progress towards racial equality is that it's such a loaded issue.
Well, in a way we already have racial equality. Except maybe for the "affirmative action" stuff, where black people are given advantages over white people, for example. But in the way people usually mean "racial equality" (implying that white people should not be "higher class"), we're already there.. and perhaps even past that, into non-equal territory again.
Because it's impossible to open yourself up to the experience of others if you're constantly in a defensive posture.
Actually, my response was not emotional. At least not wrt. the article itself. I meant to imply that the article serves no real purpose, because it's basically just stirring up White Guilt even though there's no reason for the vast majority of Westerners alive today to feel any.
White people in today's Western societies are most decidedly not racist. We're so hypersensitive about racial issues, and will ostracize anyone for showing even a hint of racism that it's simply absurd to suggest that we are the problem.
Yes, this is the problem I was snarkily bringing up.
How about.. annoyed and frustrated by the irrationality and double-standards etc?
Well, in a way we already have racial equality. Except maybe for the "affirmative action" stuff, where black people are given advantages over white people, for example. But in the way people usually mean "racial equality" (implying that white people should not be "higher class"), we're already there.. and perhaps even past that, into non-equal territory again.
Good point.