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I refuse to feel guilty that I'm white. My father was white and he was a great man. His father was white and kicked nazi butt in WW2. His father was white and legally immigrated to America to give all of us a better life. I have worked my butt off, sometimes 100+ hours a week to give my family a good life. I have never experienced "white privilege" and do not have any "white guilt". I teach my kids that people focused on skin color are the stupidest among us. When will we finally move past something as idiotic as skin color? When will we just be happy to be Americans?

bil2276 5 Apr 9
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Ever consider that it may not be you?

As far as?

@bil2276 That it might be them instead.

I know it is. Just can't wrap my head around judging someone on how they look. Have never understood it.

@bil2276 There is power in it-- they make you (some you) feel guilty over it, they have power over you. When you stop feeling guilty, the power is gone.

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I'm with you. I am very proud of my family history, but I couldn't care less about the skin color part of that. I got Mormon Pioneer ancestry on my Mom's side and Dust Bowl Okie migration on my Dad's side. I am proud of the sacrifices that my forefathers made to give their children and their children better lives. Tell me about the white privilege Okies got when in Bakersfield CA there were many signs that stated Okies not allowed right along with other minority groups. Tell me about the white privilege early Latter-day Saints had when run out of Missouri and Illinois, and then had an Army dispatched to put down a falsley reported Rebellion in n Utah. All that being said, I am also very careful to not let the Left's insistence on tribalism and intersectionality drive me to tribalism and identity politics on the right. It is just as toxic. Only ideas should matter. Principles and policies are the only things that count for me.

Just out of curiosity, are you of any distant relation to the Wilkin, Moffitt or Peacock families? All were LDS missionaries or pioneers.

@thewaywayback79 Jacob Hamblin. Charles C Rich and William Casper. Casper was in company B of the Mormon Battallion. Jacob Hamblin settled St. George and Rich founded San Bernardino.

@Ldsrabbi Ah, gotcha. Sorry to be nosy...I’ve just recently gone down the ancestry rabbit hole and I’m trying to piece everything together. It gets a little overwhelming (and slightly obsessive!).

@thewaywayback79 It's not nosy to ask about someone's family history. I am just as proud of my Dad's side as well, but the names are not as well known as the Mormon Pioneer Ancestry.

@Ldsrabbi I’m thinking that’s probably due to the LDS church having the most thorough ancestral record keeping on the planet! The entire Ancestry platform runs largely off their records. It’s incredible how thorough they are.

@thewaywayback79 No Doubt. Plus, when you are the first Westerner to settle a place, you get to start naming places, so there is that as well.

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Amen to that!

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