Guest post by Jim Goad, www.jimgoad.net. (For footnotes, see source). Is it possible that the majority of white immigrants to the early US arrived in chains? And why don’t we hear about them in history books?
WHITE PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Yumpin’ yiminy, whatta loaded concept. It has acquired the same sinister ring as “HIV in your bloodstream” or “radioactive waste in our water supply.” There’s a primitive, biblical, sins-o’-the-father notion that ALL American whites, by virtue of their birth alone, bear a stain on their souls for black slavery.
White guilt. Can’t turn on the TV or radio without being bum-rushed with it. White guilt. After tubes and tubes of toothpaste, I still can’t brush it off my teeth. White guilt. I tried to have an operation to remove the guilty tumor, but no doctor could help me.
I’ve finally figured out why I can’t get rid of my white guilt. It’s because I have none. Yet the guilt-merchants keep tapping at my door like court-ordered psychiatrists, insisting that I swallow the guilt pill. They chide me with increasingly patronizing tones that I must be too thick-skulled to grasp the doctrine of collective guilt.
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