White people have such fragile egos about hearing how other white people in the past built and enforced white supremacy. "my ancestors were from Germany and Sicily" Ok and while your ancestors were eating brautwurst and caponata, there was a brutal regime of white supremacist slavery going on in America.
They think they have to feel personally guilty to realize white supremacy still exists and where it came from. They think "white people owned slaves" is a personal attack. And they think they can excuse themselves from even needing to think about race relations in America by claiming they weren't even involved in it. You live here now, don't you?
White people have such fragile egos about hearing how other white people in the past built and enforced white supremacy. "my ancestors were from Germany and Sicily" Ok and while your ancestors were eating brautwurst and caponata, there was a brutal regime of white supremacist slavery going on in America.
They think they have to feel personally guilty to realize white supremacy still exists and where it came from. They think "white people owned slaves" is a personal attack. And they think they can excuse themselves from even needing to think about race relations in America by claiming they weren't even involved in it. You live here now, don't you?
It’a incredible how many white people react this way to that statement.