My white guilt died on Good Friday, April 6, 2012. That was the day my bike got stolen.
When I got home I vented to my friends. I told them I was going to scour those neighborhoods until I found the bike. In reply, a liberal friend gave me a lecture about profiling and told me to just forget about the bike. That person needs our prayers and help, she said. They havent had the advantages we have.
Thats when I lost it. I had been carefully educated by liberal parents that we are all, black and white, the same. My favorite movie growing up was In the Heat of the Night. Yet that often meant not treating everyone the same. It meant treating blacks with a mixture of patronizing condescension and obsequious genuflecting to their Absolute Moral Authority gained from centuries of suffering. It meant not treating everyone the same.
It meant leaving valuable things like a bike in a vulnerable position in a black part of town because you didnt want to admit that the crime is worse in poor black neighborhoods.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/the-end-of-my-white-guilt/#ixzz1rex7JcOT
When I got home I vented to my friends. I told them I was going to scour those neighborhoods until I found the bike. In reply, a liberal friend gave me a lecture about profiling and told me to just forget about the bike. That person needs our prayers and help, she said. They havent had the advantages we have.
Thats when I lost it. I had been carefully educated by liberal parents that we are all, black and white, the same. My favorite movie growing up was In the Heat of the Night. Yet that often meant not treating everyone the same. It meant treating blacks with a mixture of patronizing condescension and obsequious genuflecting to their Absolute Moral Authority gained from centuries of suffering. It meant not treating everyone the same.
It meant leaving valuable things like a bike in a vulnerable position in a black part of town because you didnt want to admit that the crime is worse in poor black neighborhoods.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/the-end-of-my-white-guilt/#ixzz1rex7JcOT