More and more every day I feel pressure. Not just my PTSD from the Navy. My anxiety. But a general sense that it is no longer ok for us as whites to be who we are or embrace and celebrate our own diverse and wonderful cultures. Put three white guys side by side and unless they are somehow related you would have three equally disparate lineages most of the time. Why are we no longer celebrating our achievements? Why are we being shamed into silence for the sins of our ancestors? Why is nobody saying anything?
It's more of gaslighting. The loudest echo the tune of loss of purpose with some very creative history.
It's okay with me. I'll also say that's it's okay to be white, brown, black, gay, trans...whatever. I don't judge you by your skin or your sexual proclivities. Are you a good person? Are you comfortable with that evaluation of yourself? If you are, you shouldn't need to ask this question. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, and other people's opinions aren't evidence, why do you need to ask such a question?
I worry about this quite a bit as a white man. Not for me, I have no problem telling people what I think regardless of skin color. I worry about my three white sons that I'm raising. How unfairly will they be treated by the time they reach adulthood?
That means that anything they accomplish through hard work will be attributed to the color of their skin. Or they will be identified as privileged or racist for being white.