How responsible do you feel when someone white does something criminal or hateful or racist? If some white guy robs a bank or kidnaps two kids, do you feel at all culpable because you're white too? What about when someone white does something specifically racist?
I ask because black people are constantly hearing (especially from whites) that "the blacks" do this and "the blacks" do that, as if we all get together and vote on anything negative any individual black person does. As if we should each feel some responsibility for the bad things. (Oddly, the positive things are invarably attributed to individuals). Yet I have yet to meet a single white person who felt personally responsible for segregation, even though majorities of whites actually did vote for the laws that sustained it, let alone for the bad acts that whites commit. Is there a double standard going on here?
2007-01-16
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