Why it is wrong for white people to say their proud to be white?

Hi,

I don’t think that anyone should be proud of their ethnicity.

I mean: If you have a grade A in math, then you can be proud of it ‘cause it’s something you achieved. If you are member in a certain political movement, then you can be proud of it, because it’s something you chose. If you are member of a certain faith, then you can be proud of it, because it’s something you believe in.

But: If you are member of a certain ethnicity then it’s something that just happened to you completely beyond your control.

If everyone in the world rolls a dice, and is thus assigned a number from 1 to 6, and then people would say: “I am proud to be a number-4-person!” That would be completely ridiculous. I think its the same with ethnicity. You just happen to have certain facial features, a hair color and a number of pigments in your skin. You can’t choose your relatives. You can’t choose your ancestors. It’s nothing you achieve. It’s nothing you could change.

So it’s useless to take pride in it.

Bye the sheep

Im a biologist, I dont believe in race. I could have more genetic similarities with someone of african descent than with the white person down the road.

Rockstar wanna be

The only reason blacks traded off each other is because if they didn’t they would have been sold themselves. It’s called divide and conquer!!!

I think it’s completely idiotic to be proud of something that you didn’t even achieve… A person should be proud of finishing college, or finding a cure for cancer, not for being born a certain way!? lol it’s absolutely idiotic

There’s nothing wrong with having pride in your appearance, who you are and your cultural background. Be especially proud of yourself though when you do things for the selfless benefit of others. I’m of mixed background so my family tend to look at others more in terms of whats on the inside.

im 100% proud to be white. you dont have to be proud about everything in history of your race. every country has done something bad. white people had slaves but africans are also responsible cause they traded their own people to the other countries. every race or country has good and bad things about it.

Everybody should be proud of being any race they are. Every race has their own brackround and their own effort that was made to take us to what we are today. I’m not white but I am proad of who I am. So many people wont be able to answer to so many questions… Does it mean all white people are not proud? Probobly not, just means that they need to dig in their history or they don’t have time or something. But just because they don’t answere every sngle question does not mean they are not proud. I myself am half black and half mexican. I do know a lot about my history of african americans, but yet I don’t know soo much about my mexican backround. Am I proud? Yes I am. Of both of them.

Thanks for restating what I said, just 20 times longer