Is it normal to think that people with white guilt are cowards

no one should feel guilty for something they didn't do.

I don't feel guilty because I never owned a slave and you never picked cotton.

I'm very proud of my white heritage and my ancestors. I love my history and my culture. If I could I would have stopped mindless slavery, but I can't. That's it, it happened, people must get over it. Whites were also enslaved by Muslims a lot, so this isn't just a one-way thing by the way. This guilt is garbage it simply selects one side of the story and pushes that crap.

As long as you're a good person that respects my liberty and my existence, I'll have respect for you, too.

I have no guilt for something that ended 160 years before I was born.

I live in the infamous selma, Alabama and drive across the equally famous Edmund pettus bridge quite often. I feel my gut wrench when I see some white bred family who are probably from Maine and have never personally known anyone black smiling into cameras by the national landmark placard. I just know theyre going to post their cheesy little family photo on Facebook to show all their white guilt friends how non racist they are. Makes me want to push them all over the railing into the river below.

I am a mixed mut American of many Europeans that struggled. I have no care or guilt about the millions of things people did in the past.

They are pathetic, I openly take pride in my european ancestors.

I feel like white guilt is useless. Don't be guilty about what your ancestors did, work to dissemble the current power structures in America that continue to divide us like the:

1. Medical racial bias (https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/patient-care-articles/pritzker-medical-student-research-on-race-bias)
2. Racial profiling (https://news.stanford.edu/2016/06/28/stanford-researchers-develop-new-statistical-test-shows-racial-profiling-police-traffic-stops/)
3. Our prison system (https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/7/14834454/exoneration-innocence-prison-racism),
4. The continuing after effects of the war on drugs on minority communities (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249720341_Social_Consequences_of_the_War_on_Drugs_the_Legacy_of_Failed_Policy)
5. Red-lining (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-modern-day-redlining-20180215-story.html)
6. Our educational system (https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/01/28/us-education-still-separate-and-unequal)
7. Job Discrimination (https://csgjusticecenter.org/reentry/posts/researchers-examine-effects-of-a-criminal-record-on-prospects-for-employment/ AND https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/27/white-high-school-drop-outs-are-as-likely-to-land-jobs-as-black-college-students/#476821cb7b8f)

These are the real issues that minorities continue to face. I didn't pick cotton, but the racist structure built from that racism is still alive and needs to be dissembled. I don't care about Timmy who said Nigger. I'm upset about institutional /systems/.

There's literally not one single white person that feels guilty because of what happened in the 1800's. There are, however, plenty of white people who feel bad about all of the racism that still exists today. One person's "white guilt" is another person's "empathy."

Also, fun fact: I've never heard the phrase "white guilt" used unironically by a person who wasn't extremely racist.

I feel like that's kinda racist, i mean, feeling that guilt for black people when they didn't do anything.

Can't they just like, dont care at all? just fucking go on with your life and dont treat people of color diferent, dont be more apologetic or more "Kind" just because they are black. It'll just create a weird situation between people

I see where you’re coming. I’ve got some white friends that say “it sucks being white, I wish I was asian like you.” It pisses me off. Some people have to stay in their own race, and be grateful for what they got. Since white people are privileged I don’t see why they’d want to change their race. It’s easier being a white person in America then a black person. Truth be told.

We should stop looking at ourselves as white or black or brown and just look at ourselves as people. The color of ones skin should not be something we have pride or shame for. We are all apart of the same race. The human one.

They're pussies man, Idk what happened to whites, we just became such bitches.

No hard feelings should be passed on from generation to generation which promotes hate. Negros were and still are looked on with distain because they were brought up that negros were inferior. Also some people still don't like Germans because of WWIII and Hitler. Slavery is over and so is WWII. Let it go. It's over

Werid how people are hung up on so called good hair or bad hair it's just dead skin.

You made a good point though.

I fucking hate seeing white guilt. White people are privileged and instead of helping, we just choose to sit aside and pull the "Well I didn't do anything" card and not change what's happening in this moment.

Most of the time, white guilt is just self-indulged garbage. It is racist, annoying and pitiful.

I don't have white guilt.