Keeping Up With White Guilt News

This is not FAKE NEWS, but they are just stories we are pulling off the internet.  Take them for what they are worth, and that's not a ton, but there are some articles that help our culture define what white guilt means.

	Legends of Tomorrow: Sara Will Be Motivated By Guilt in Season 3 Screen Rant Season 3 of The CW series Legends of Tomorrow will explore a new character arc with Sara Lance, the White Canary, as the character struggles with ... Flag as irrelevant
	Biracial Singer Halsey Speaks About Passing For White, Says She 'Feels Black' Blavity Halsey was born to a white mother and a black father in New Jersey. ... "White guilt is funny, but this is a really hard time for white allies," she said. Flag as irrelevant
	White woman, reject racism Mail & Guardian It wasn't long before the colour-blind cavalry of “good white people” showed up. With Lady Gaga ... White guilt is only useful in so far as it's enlivening. Flag as irrelevant
	Man suspected of posting racist flyers cited by police Lincoln Journal Star The fliers, which included an obscenity, railed against "white guilt" and listed a white supremacist website. The posters were removed, and the man ... Flag as irrelevant
	The far-left strikes another blow against free speech Washington Examiner Indeed, this week, Goldy gave a compelling defense of her viewpoints. "I do not bathe in tears of white guilt, that doesn't make me a white supremacist. Flag as irrelevant
	Hey Nazis: Stop Crying, You've Already Been Replaced ChicagoNow (blog) To the Nazis and white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville ... I no longer feel "white guilt" for having worked hard to become a fair-minded, ... Flag as irrelevant
	President Trump's 'White Blindness' Consortium News Still, many white Americans rejected the notion of white guilt for those past crimes and rallied to Ronald Reagan's crude caricatures about “welfare ... Flag as irrelevant
	US university cancels 'Today Charlottesville, Tomorrow Texas A&M' Sept 11 event Study International News The September 11 event will be focused on protesting “the liberal agenda of White Guilt and white genocide that is taught at most all universities in ... Flag as irrelevant
	The NFL's National Anthem problem: A (not so) radical solution The Grueling Truth (press release) In addition, I have no white guilt. I just don't. I am sorry, but my ancestors did not own slaves and they did not fight for the South in the Civil War, so I ... Flag as irrelevant

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White Guilt: Still Wrong

It has always intrigued me: the trope of a white person travelling abroad to “find themselves.” Turn on the TV, open a magazine, look to your left: there it is. Furthermore, despite being the minority in many of these countries, white people still manage to inject their privilege into every aspect of their experience, all under the guise of “exploring and understanding.” This is called white guilt. The classic Hollywood-spun tale of a group of Caucasians briefly changing their race or cultural practices, but refusing to relinquish any privilege.
Films like Seven Years in Tibet, the Last Samurai, even James Cameron’s Avatar, support the problematic view of the white man as the savior to the savage peoples of the “outside” world. Often in these films, the citizens of the country being visited are portrayed through stereotypes and very little meaningful dialogue with the main character. White mainstream media’s opinion of brown people is so consistently low that when important roles do arise for people of color, they are given to white people with vaguely ethnic features. At this point, any depiction of a brown person by someone who is not a person of color is invalid. In a world where white people are being constantly praised and rewarded for having basic human decency and understanding of culture, we have a lot of work ahead of us.
Until we stop encouraging white mediocrity in our media, we will continue to disenfranchise a growing population of young people of color looking for their place in their own cultures. Few things are more affirming than seeing yourself reflected back in a positive light. Representation and mentorship allow people of color to set our goals high, make mistakes, follow our hearts and to grow and glow, unhindered by expectation.
The brown people of the world do not exist to answer your existential questions. We are not props or costumes. White fragility is not sponsored by the continents of Africa and Asia. So the next time you find yourself presented with an opportunity provided to you by your privilege, wield it with intention. Accurate and positive representation is such an infinitely powerful tool and one that is well within our grasp.

Link: https://www.lawrentian.com/archives/1010580

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White Guilt Over Slavery Is Not Helping Black America

By Jack Kelly September 13, 2015

I’m glad I live in a time of automobiles, air conditioning, indoor plumbing, the Internet and great medical advances. But if I had to live in an earlier period, I’d want to be a soldier in the Union Army. I can think of no greater cause than to fight to eradicate America’s original sin. Slavery isn’t America’s original sin because it was unique, or uniquely horrible here. If prostitution is “the world’s oldest profession,” slave trading is second. Since the dawn of recorded history, slavery has been practiced in nearly every society known to man.

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Mr. Midnight Movie and Jewish Producer Discuss Soda Limitations

In 2012, Mr Midnight Movie and Jewish Producer discussed a ban on big (15 ounces or more) soft drinks.  Fair or too much government meddling in your life? Discuss.

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