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Posted by SMAZ on Wed Sep 1 12:02:17 2010, in response to Re: Glenn Beck sorry for Obama comment, posted by #4 Sea Beach Fred on Wed Sep 1 10:36:45 2010. When an African-American takes pride in himself he is proud of being black and it is cause for praise in the media and elsewhere.I'm not the media. Taking pride over pigmentation makes about as much sense as me being proud of my brown (sometime grayish) eyes. The same for Native Americans being proud of being red, or Asian peoples proud of being yellow. When a caucasian, however, says he is proud to be white he is accused of being a racist. it's stupid no matter what race the person is. It doesn't make any sense. I am proud of my Italian-American heritage I'm also of Italian descent and a dual citizen (I lived there for many years and my parents still do). I am proud of Italian's positive achievments (there are many) and ashamed of their negative ones (not as many). I have contributed close to nothing on either count since I was a teenager when I came back to the US, so there is nothing that I can be proud (or ashamed) of in my "Italian persona". I don't put value (or shame) upon myself by what my ancestors did. I take pride (or shame) from what I personally do. I don't pigeonhole myself anymore than I pigeonhole others. I'm somebody from the US who happens to have white pigmentation with brown (sometimes gray) eyes who is of Italian descent. I can only take pride in doing things that make myself and my country better. I have nothing to do with the greatness of Leonardo da Vinci, the disgrace of La Mafia, the heroism of the boys of Iwo Jima or the shame of the Ku Klux Klan, let alone anything white people from Sweden, Russia or Argentina who share my same pigmentation may have done well or wrong. |
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