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Originally Posted by Lovebird
Not myself, but once my daughter came home from school where she had been studying about the Jewish holocaust, the African slave trade, the Japanese detainment camps during World War II, the segregation laws, etc., and said, "Mom, I'm ashamed to be white."
I told her she didn't have anything to be ashamed of, because she didn't do any of those things. Then further research of our family tree revealed that we are descended from a murdered Native American chief on one side, and a prominent abolitionist on the other. Nobody in our lineage has ever owned a slave or participated in an act of genocide, and in fact our ancestors were fighting those crimes. So we don't need to feel shame at all.
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Even though we have never had that kind of blood on our hands, I still feel that way because of the way that i have been treated. I feel like because of all the things that our "predecessors" did, we as their descendants have to suffer from those crimes though we maintain our innocence. But then it's not really true. It's just in my mind, I guess.
when the world doesn't seem to care, that's when these irrational thoughts come in.