Is it okay to be proud of being white?

If you're proud of your heritage (not race) and allow others to also be proud of their heritage, I don't see the problem with that in theory.

In PRACTICE, however, "white pride" always seems to be racist, especially since many people will say they are "proud to be white" during Black History Month. This article sums it up perfectly.

5 reasons why 'white pride' is always racist

 

If you for example like it more in a look kind of way sure why not?
as long as you don't use your pride to make other people less worthy than you you can be proud of anything i guess...

 

Ya I guess. I think everyone should be proud to be there race. I mean skin is just a color it doesn't say anything about anyone.

 

well if they arent racist about it i dont mind them but whats so new about being white or black or whatever your skin tone is its just a skin color it doesnt matter and if you like yourself that way you dont have to shove it into everybody because its not that big of a deal anyway ^_^
though i dont see anyone saying they are proud of being white as of yet ! cause white people never got bullied for their skin tone or punished or used as slaves or what so ever not in all the history they were always the normal people
its just like being proud to be straight
or proud to be blonde
one day LGBT people will be like any normal people and i think there wont be anything as proud to be gay\trans as it will be so much accepted people wont notice who is gay\trans who is not just like people got over who is black who is Latin or who is white

 

Bringing up another point (you're probably gonna hate me for)

racism isn't only a white thing there are also black people who are racistic.

you should be proud of whoever you are.The point some people don't see is the difference of being proud of yourself and using that pride as an excuse to declare another persons pride invalid.

 

if im going to agree about white pride
next thing we are going to see is straight pride now here 90% of you wont agree cause you are gay

 

This is true.

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They do have straight pride their flag is black, brown, grey and white.

 

I read a book about two girls being friends and one of them was lesbian and the other said:"I know that i'm straight now, normally people don't see that they just assume that everyone is like them."

i'd count that as straight pride.She realised that not everyone is straight which in the end brought her to the realization that she is.

 

since when is it a thing to be proud of being straight to me its seems offending cause i feel like someone is telling me HEY BUDDY YEAH IM STRAIGHT EVERYBODY LOVES ME IM ALWAYS ACCEPTED IM LIVING THE DREAM THAT MY PARENTS WANT ME TO LIVE IM ALLOWED TO MARRY ANYONE I WANT WHEREVER I GO I CAN EVER DONATE BLOOD AND YOU CANT HAHAHHA
now replace gay and straight with black and white same thing isnt it :dry:

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im not saying not to love themselves though
im talking about saying it out loud STRAIGHT WHITE AND PROUD ! cause that is offending even if he didnt mean it that way

 

I honestly thing that being proud of something you didn't do anything for is dumb. I mean, I didn't chose to be born the way I am, why would I feel any pride in it ? I see this kind of pride as a mere way to divide people even more.

If you worked pretty hard in order to learn something, yeah, you can be proud of you. But being proud of being born is nonsense.

 

i guess it's less being "proud" and more "not being ashamed for it"

the opposide of ashamed is proud =/

 

It works the same way in this case, why would you be ashamed of being born ? If you did something shameful you deserve to be ashamed. But being ashamed of being born is nonsense.

 

yeah but if people tell you you are worth less than the others for being gay or black some people start feeling ashamed for putting it easy "their existense" or being themselves..

 

Yes of course, why should not be ?

 

I perfectly see what you mean, but it would still be nonsense, even if there are people trying to bring you down, you have to know inside that you were born this way.
I mean, I'm bi-racial Arab and White, I don't know why I should feel anything about this. It's funny sometimes cause I don't look like people in my family, but nothing more.

Yeah, "Those white people are dangerous" would sum World History up quite easily, but damn, why would I feel ashamed of what my ancestors did ? I don't even know them.

Your father may be the worse human on Earth, you still are yourself and a different person.

 

because some people may see you as your father no matter if you are him or not.
some people also feel responsible and think they have to right things they havn't done themselves.
*shrugs*Humanity is fucked up like that.

 

But that's what people think, as long as you know who you are, you don't have to care.
If we were to follow this logic, being German would be the worst sin ever. Know that you are just who you are and that your ancestor have nothing to do with who you are.