Just because someone how has similar pigment in their skin does something completely fucked up doesn't mean that they are ambassadors for everyone with similar features. We must all recognize injustice but be more surgical in placing blame on that individual. If a black man robs a store and shots a cop, he doesn't become the ambassador for all black people. On the extreme side of the spectrum, Nazi genocide and ideologies aren't definitive of who white people are.

And you are totally free (and even incoraged) to disagree.

And the point on the pride movement I was making is that a lot of the people that arrange those and are vocal about it demand special threatment and compensations. The people themselves that are there are mostly celebrating their heritage, and there is nothing wrong in that.

In USA it does, you have the "one drop of blood" thing. I could even show a report that surfaced in Brazil about a girl that tanned her skin and pretended to be black (because she identified as one) and were kicked of the movement while a white guy were accepted in some decades before because he had one ancestor that was black.

Now tell me how I wouldn't be from that minority having 3/4 of my heritage coming straight from slaves, only because my skin is white, while my hair, teeths, eye color and even a lot of my facial features and even muscular build are mostly from african heritage... my brother that happen to be brown skinned them would be a minority them?

In Brazil we are more on the "how do you classify yourself on your heritage", because besides some more recent immigrants (like chinese, korean, small part of japanese) most of the population have mixed heritage, we estimate that about 93% of our population have african heritage (even ignoring the "we all originated from Africa" part).

So in here the movements try to frame it more on the color of the skin than on the dna itself, which is idiotic when talking about history and historic debt.

And sorry to break your bubble, but the vocal part of the minorities are the ones that use (and sometimes set) those movements exactly to request special privileges, and guess what, being the vocal of the group they sometimes get what they want while using the others as leverage.

Acknowledge that there is a thing called "white privilege" and that it is effecting the lives of non-white people everyday. Then they can be as proud as they want. Some are unconscious of white privilege... and then there are those who completely reject its existence.

I love this paper on the list of 50 things white people can do that other races cannot.
http://www.cirtl.net/files/PartI_CreatingAwareness_WhitePrivilegeUnpackingtheInvisibleKnapsack.pdf

I don't see any bubble breaking here, you're making a lot of assumptions. There have been many times vocal parts of minorities (sometimes even agressively) demanded measures for equal treatment, but I know very few if any meaningful instances where priveleges were demanded.

My daughter is part Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Peruvian, and Welsh. What sort of effed up pride is she supposed to feel...???

Yo, what "color" are you?

How do you feel about "your race?"

I'm here thinking that's a list about systematic advantages white people as a whole have (like how a white people back then were the only ones allowed to sit in the front of a bus and if there were no other seats except in the back, they were entitled to ask a black person to stand up and give up their seat).

Instead, I'm getting:  

"I can talk with my mouth full and not have people put this down to my color."

" I can easily buy posters, post-cards, picture books, greeting cards, dolls, toys and children's magazines featuring people of my race."

They probably don't feel anything. Specially if they grew up/live in mostly anglo populated areas.

The whole world goes around the white men, they're universally considered the most attractive, privileged, so on and so forth, but they're also expected to cope with whatever the minorities want and not do anything even if there's nothing wrong with speaking up.

They probably are indifferent towards their own race and don't look past that when it comes to themselves. But it isn't good to generalize.

Peggy is a reaserch scientist and Harvard PhD student... and she's white. For you to dismiss her work as something from buzzfeed actually makes me very interested in seeing you "dismantling" all 50 points one by one.

I look forward to it.

Since when does everything boil down to skin color? Seems a bit judgemental to assume most white bosses would ask only a white person why they were late and write off a black person completely because of his skin color. I'm kind of glad you brought it up though. I could make the same argument where there is a black boss and how he asks the black man why he was late and writes off the white man coming in late. These arguments I'm hearing are black and white (one or the other), it isn't taking into consideration other possible reasons.