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White privilege, white guilt, and white fragility are just a few of the terms bandied about by liberals who have capitalized financially on the guilt of Caucasian masochists who want an excuse to feel as if they should be punished for crimes that are exclusive to the white race. However, as abominable as slavery is, it is not a unique creation of Caucasians.
In 2020, there was a video of white people in Houston, so upset about the death of George Floyd that they got on their knees to ask black people for forgiveness. To my knowledge, none of them were involved in George Floyd’s death, so why were they on their knees?
In 2024, California lawmakers passed a bill to atone for the “legacy of racist policies” that created disparities against black people. However, these lawmakers didn’t offer anything in this bill to give money directly to African Americans. In 2025, the bill was signed into law by Gavin Newsom and provided for the creation of a state reparations bureau. It also had a provision to fund Cal State Universities to develop a geneaology-based eligibility system, create a claims process for land taken from black families through racist policies and finally create a reserve of 10% of state-supported home ownership opportunities for descendants of slaves of African ancestry.
Should modern-day California residents (who are already heavily taxed and experience serious budget shortfalls and billions in fraud) be on the hook to pay reparations, especially since California, upon its entry into the union, entered as a free state?
San Francisco created a Reparations Plan, which was signed by white Mayor Daniel Lurie to “correct historic ills.” Under this plan, eligible individuals could collect up to a 5 million lump sum payment. In Congress, a leftist and constant critic of President Trump, Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich. introduced a bill that would set up a federal commission to “study and distribute land reparations” for the descendants of slaves in the U.S.
Globally, according to the AP, the United Nations General Assembly voted to “adopt a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.”
All of these heart-felt desires to atone for past wrongs on the part of white people indicate one of two things: a sincere desire to make things right or an obsession with a need to feel guilty about something. No one alive today was ever a legal slave and no one alive today was ever a legal slave owner. Those who are possessed by guilt are almost all overwhelmingly white. Yet, historically, slavery has been an aspect of many non-white cultures, but members of these cultures seem to bear no feelings of guilt or responsibility for racial atrocities that led to the enslavement of others.
Slavery has been practiced by many societies, going all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia as far back as 3500 B.C. The African Empires of Mali, Ghana, Songhai and the Ashanti all practiced slavery, yet there is no such thing as African guilt or African privilege. Native American tribes, including the Tehuelche, the Comanche and the Caribs, all practiced slavery, as did the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas, but there is no Native American guilt or Native American privilege of their descendants. China, in the Han and Qin dynasties, practiced slavery. India, Assyria, Babylonia, Persia and the Akkadian Empire all embraced the institution of slavery, and in the Muslim world, slavery dominated its culture in the following places: the Ottoman Empire, Zanzibar, Kenya, Madagascar, and the Sokoto Caliphate (Nigeria and Cameroon). In the Sahara and in the Sahel, slavery existed as late as 1975. Despite all of these places that embraced this barbaric system, the only people who express any kind of guilt about it are white liberals.
In Europe during the Middle Ages, serfs were the equivalent of slaves, but this was white people making other white people serve them in exchange for protection, so I guess it doesn’t count. Indentured servitude was another aspect of white-on-white slavery, for the most part, as whites sold themselves into slavery to pay back debts. I guess that indentured servants and serfs “were just in the wrong place at the wrong time,” to quote one progressive Chicago politician.
Those who support reparations only want to target white Europeans descendants for the crimes of their ancestors, but never seek to condemn the African tribal leaders who made the slave trade a major economic development during the age of exploration. Does anyone believe that Portuguese and Muslim traders would have been able to confiscate individuals without the blessing of African tribal leaders?
Muslim countries where slavery was and is common in today’s world are given a pass because they are on the liberal untouchable list when it comes to criticism, condemnation or demands for reparations. Their atrocities and barbarism are overlooked. Their inhuman treatment of women is overlooked.
Perhaps the United Nations might want to focus on the present instead of selectively targeting the past, or would this upset the same members who look the other way regarding injustice in their own lands. It is common for tunnel-visioned bureaucrats to look in the direction of those evil whites and hold them to be accountable for a cross-cultural institution that has contributed to the pain and suffering of millions of all races, but in their eyes, only one group has been charged with paying for it: white people.
The attempt to extract payments and punish one group for an institution that is as common to mankind as making war is enabled by members of that group who fail to view the entire picture and who are so self consumed with guilt that they cannot think logically. The average Muslim, African or Native American feels no guilt over what their ancestors did. It was a part of life and culture and like it or not, history is a brutal exercise in survival of the strongest. No amount of historical revisionism or relativism can change the past.
No one can argue the immorality of the slave trade or any system that makes one individual the property of another individual. Yet, the myopic nature of this argument that identifies only one group as perpetrators and ignores every other group that engaged in the trading of human beings illustrates the selective nature of accusers and those claiming guilt for crimes they didn’t personally commit. It is disingenuous and despite all the kneeling and apologies, you can count on one hand how many of these virtue signalers will offer their own money, jobs, property or positions they occupy to rectify the past injustices that they so passionately argue others to pay for and correct the injustice.
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