Why do "white" people try to justify all the evil in their history?

Question

Literate earthlings notice a pattern of European bad behavior since they lost the Crusades to the Muslims, and it's been against everyone else! Asians, Africans, Native Americans, Indians, Middle Easterners, even each other!! Shouldn't they just accept their heritage and try to improve themselves?

Answer 1

i notice that you choose to live in a white country, rather than rwanda, darfur, somalia, ethiopia, sudan, zimbabwe, congo, eritria, or any other blk african country, why is that? pattern of bad behavior? let's consider blacks pattern of behavior, you know, genocide, aids, baby rapes, famine, murder, fraud, corruption, the list is endless. There is not one stable country in blk africa, and you would not live there under any circumstance.
you owe your entire life to whites, from the fact that you did not die at birth to the probability that you will live past 30 is only possible because of whites, from the clothes you wear to the food you eat, to the home you live in, your health, every single aspect of your life you owe to whites.
you remember that the next time you see a 50lb. african teenager walking with a bag of american rice back to their village

Answer 2

The better question might be why do PEOPLE try to justify all the evil in their history? It isn't just white people who do it ... though certainly those of us of European decent have a big ole bag of ugly to carry around. The fact is what happened in the past isn't our fault, however, we fair-skinned people still benefit from the ugliness our ancestors did.

No one wants to think of their family and ancestors as being evil. It's hard to swallow and it's hard to answer for people we never knew. It's a shameful past over which we have no power.

In America European colonists/Americans built the country and its government on the backs of others without regard to the quality of the lives of those people. So ... the way we live today, all of the wealth, status, technology, everything is because of what our ancestors did to non-anglos. That's a bitter pill to swallow. But what do we do about it?

On the other hand, strong, proud brown people can lay a legitimate claim to the fact that THEIR ancestors made this country what it is :-)

Of course, there are some (ignorant) people who use the "evil" to lift themselves up (thinking it somehow means their ancestors were better and stronger and superior), but many of us get it ... we really do.

So try not to stereotype your paler brothers and sisters. I've learned from experience that trying to force those who continue to justify the past to see the wrongness will not work. Unfortuately, PEOPLE will always try to justify the past not because it's difficult to accept what our ancestors did, but because it's hard to accept that we still benefit from it today. Most people don't want to confront the uncomfortable ... it's, well, uncomfortable.

Keep in mind that creating stereotypes about white people, using words like evil, and "they" will only harden the hearts of those who may be on the verge of getting it and prolong the negativity. It only causes people to feel defensive and shrink further into the shell of protection which looks a whole lot like attacking. Embracing the positive moves forward (however ungodly slow they may be) is a much more proactive approach.

Answer 3

Davin.

I see several good answers above.

I might add:

White European history is certainly not without its evils and injustices: feudalism, forced religious conversions, massacres, castrations, witch hunts, burnings at the steak, the Catholic Church's persecution of Galileo, all of these things indeed did happen from time to time.

However, please keep in mind that White people have not always tried to justify their evil or vicious actions in history. For example, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, a very White upper-class Britisher, was critical of England's involvement in World War I and thought that England and France were just as guilty of starting the war as Germany.

Another White Britisher, Daniel Dafoe (Aka Daniel Foe), author of "Robinson Crusoe", wrote articles in the "London Times" criticizing Black Slavery in the American South as far back as the 1720's. You could say that he was the grandfather of the Abolitionist movement.

Then there was American writer Helen Hunt Jackson whose book "A Century of Dishonor" (1881) criticized Anglo-American policies towards the American Indians and led to some reforms in the U.S. Congress regarding American Indians in the 1880's.

Also, it goes without saying that evil deeds in history have not always been committed by White Europeans. It was Genghis Khan who burned over a one hundred Afghan men, women and children to death in a barn when he invaded the country in 1219 and who had skull towers built in Bagdad after he captured that city. And what about the "Rape of Nanking" (1937) or the "Killing Fields" of Cambodia (1975-76)? - no White Europeans involved in these atrocities.

There was also some unspeakable cruelty committed by Black Africans against other Black Africans during the Nigerian Civil War of 1968-69 and during the struggle by Robert Mugabe's guerillas against the Ian Smith regime in Rhodesia / Zimbabwe (1970's) but I won't go into it.

Unfortunately, it just seems to be basically a cold, cruel word that we live in anywhere you go and progress is made only very slowly over thousands of years.

Answer 4

Hey it's human nature for humans to try to justify things no matter how much the facts are against them. There is no justifying the past. Every race has been on both ends at one time or other.

Answer 5

Why are some people willing to hold someone responsible for events that happened before they were born or that said someone had no involvement in whatsoever?

Shouldn't they accept that they are making gross and unfair generalizations and try to improve themselves?

Then again, and correct me if I'm wrong, but that's not what you want to hear is it?

Answer 6

I am white and I don't need to justify anything. Black people are the least accepted race in the world and always have been. Anywhere they go! You must ask yourself why. Why do other races not want to be around black people? I think the answer's obvious. Think about it.

Answer 7

I hate when people make huge racial generalisations based on their limited experiences with those around them. You'll end up with questions like these. Why is everyone named Davin a dick? Why are all blacks murderers? Why are hispanics thieves? Why do the Jews steal everyones money? Why are all asians nerdish emperor worshipers? dumb

Answer 8

easy 2

Answer 9

I see myself as a individual and don't associate with anyone Else's actions.

Answer 10

You have a very serious cultural flaw.