How are white people supposed to feel about their own race?

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Speak for yourselves. Ireland has thousands of years of rich history, destroyed by other "white" people who came, raped, starved and killed millions of us and we were treated like slaves for hundreds of years. (See the penal laws). Tagging all "white" people is a stereotype and is just as bad as tagging all "black" people. This is an American issue so leave it there please. Not all black people are treated like black Americans. Not all white people have and have had white privilege. 

Now we are a wealthy nation because we fought hard to retain our culture and our "privileges" but seriously, it has nothing got to do with being white. We still put up with crap from American and uk media with twisted lies and nonsense. They couldn't have any other country doing well! People will kill eachother no matter what. They will find an excuse. How am I supposed to feel about white privilege? It's an american invention because white people used to own black people in the USA and it will take hundreds of years to level out. It's really white American privilege. I've lived there, and was treated like foreign filth. I should know. Was I privileged? 

This is really interesting.  If you are okay with talking about it, I would like to hear more about how an Irish person was treated like filth in the USA.  I thought anti-Irish discrimination was a thing of the past.  As for "putting up with crap from the media", I thought that the only time American media disparaged the Irish was on St. Patrick's Day