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THREAD: You miss the reality that not all white people are related to someone who owned slaves or supported Jim Crow. I understand your intention but in reality it’s dangerous to lead an exercise that perpetuates it’s own brand of racism by assuming all white people are to blame.
Even white people who are related to past slaveowners are not guilty for the sins of their fathers. I believe in personal accountability. If I do something horrible, my kids don’t bear responsibility for my choices, nor do all Cuban people simply because I’m Cuban.
If you believe in individuality instead of collectivism then you start to see the uniqueness of each person. You start to wash away assumptions based on the things we can’t control (like skin color) and instead begin to love or hold people accountable for their direct actions.
In terms of cult behavior you have a vast majority of people watching this feeling it resembles a cult. Ask yourself why? You’re leading a mindless repetition without the audience even taking in what they’re doing yet feeling peer pressure to follow along. It quacks like a cult..
If we extend the logic of your repetitive programming then should children of murderers and rapists feel a responsibility to apologize for what their fathers did? Should they feel guilt? Should they pay back their fathers victims? The logic breaks down quickly when you extend it.
This all centers at a core belief that the oppressor victim paradigm reigns supreme. It’s its own form of spiritual identity politics. It’s such a shame we have to drag spirituality into politics. An all loving God doesn’t judge people based on their ancestors crimes.
You either look at an innocent baby as an innocent blank slate or you see them as part of an oppressive group that somehow needs to rectify or atone for their skin color. So which is it @marwilliamson? Are they an innocent blank slate or guilty of their ancestors sins?
