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

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Shiken said:

I am only going to answer 4 because it sums up the entire thing.

No it did not make me feel any different, I could care less as like I said in my second post it it was more of a way to not generalize all non-whites into a group.  I did not put it in whites because common sense should have told you that if I feel that way about non-whites, it should be the same for whites so I should not have to repeat myself with a second set of parentheses stating so.  Had it not been overanalysed, you would have figured that out.

What I was defending was that by switching the two and then saying I was generalizing non whites, you were implying that I was doing something that I was not.

My point is that we are all people and blowing things up is what breeds most of the hate to begin with.  And the thing is, nothing is at a national level.  If it is an employer, the authorities in THAT area should handle it.  If it is an individual, the parties involved should handle it as needed.  At no point has racism been at a national level in recent years like the media will have you believe.

Just because something happens in cali does not mean that people in PA should be up in arms for example.  All that does is create tension for everyone in PA when there was nothing wrong to begin with.  If there is a problem in Cali, let Cali handle it OR go to Cali yourself to show your support if you feel the need to.  Don't act like it is a nationwide problem just because something on the other side of the country ticks you off.

Not directed at you if course, just giving an example.

But your language WAS more generalized when speaking of non-whites than whites in that sentence.  It would have been worse without the parenthetical comment but it was present even with it.  "Overgeneralizing" isn't the same as "being KKK" to any person with at least a hint of common sense, so please don't think I'm trying to imply anything beyond an unconscious tendency to generalize about non-whites more than whites.  (Or possibly bad reading comprehension skills.)  I'm glad that having it reversed doesn't make you feel any differently.  If you felt very defensive of whites being spoken of in a way that you saw nothing wrong with blacks being spoken of, then it would suggest that you see whites and blacks differently. 

But as for people in PA not needing to butt into CA problems ... I just disagree, if the problem is one that CA society isn't handling well.  In the civil rights era of the 1960s the progress was largely made by a national response to a regional problem.  Not to say there weren't problems outside of the South but I think you know what I'm getting at.  A national discussion of a mostly regional problem, and other regions butting into it.