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are you proud to be white?
Replies: 37Last Post Oct. 12, 2008 6:57am by kidd rune
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Choice Votes Percent  
Yes 35 61%
No 11 19%
Not white 11 19%
Vote Now! 57 Votes Cast
Baron Samedi


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Yes.

Except I'm not white.

So no.

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Wow, 96% of people who answered this poll are white.

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I don't care ?

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seekingsimplicity


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what you should have asked is if your proud, ashamed or indifferent.
a lot of people who are white here probably dont care... but its interesting to see if they're ashamed.


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kidd rune


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Proud - why wouldn't I be?

What have Whites really done to harm the world, and can they begin to outweigh their numerous contributions?

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Quote: from kidd rune at 6:18 pm on Oct. 9, 2008

Proud - why wouldn't I be?  

What have Whites really done to harm the world, and can they begin to outweigh their numerous contributions?


Because you didn't earn or choose your whiteness and it's not an attribute of your character.

Post edited at 7:03 pm on Oct. 9, 2008 by Its Bearsy Bitch

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Don't have anything to be proud of.  I had no part in my making.

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Quote: from Its Bearsy Bitch at 6:31 pm on Oct. 9, 2008

Because you didn't earn or choose your whiteness and it's not an attribute of your character.


It certainly can be if you make it be a part of your character, and subscribe to the collective accomplishments of whites.

However, I'd argue that it's meaningless to.  The actions of other whites in the past has no direct bearing on my own personal life.  It may have influenced where I am and whatnot, but that's nothing to be proud of for I have not personally taken in any part of that.  On the flip side, I'm not guilty for what whites have done to others in the past either, for I have not taken in any part of that.  I am what I am and nothing more.  I do not claim what is not personally mine or what I have not personally done.


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kidd rune


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Because you didn't earn or choose your whiteness and it's not an attribute of your character.
But I was born with it and have White history running through my veins.

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jakelong


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Racial history runs through your veins??? LOL that's a new low in stupid BS.

What do your white blood cell say to your red blood cells? "Move over because my history is more important to KR than yours?"

Post edited at 1:52 am on Oct. 11, 2008 by jakelong

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I'm a proud Irish person... I don't live off the achievments of my forebearers, I use their achievments for my very definition.

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SimplisticComplexity


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Guys, there are other definitions to pride.  Pride isn't just about your accomplistments.  

I think under this particular definition:
"1.a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc."  one could definitely say they are proud of being who they are.

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Quote: from kidd rune at 10:48 pm on Oct. 9, 2008

Proud - why wouldn't I be?

What have Whites really done to harm the world, and can they begin to outweigh their numerous contributions?



okay, what contributions?
On the topic at hand, I'm not really proud of anything but my laptop. It's my one connection to this fragile world... No, I'm not one of those kids that sit behind their computer all day...
Well, what is there to be proud of? Nothing in my opinion, until I complete what I will do, which I don't know yet.

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kidd rune


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Racial history runs through your veins??? LOL that's a new low in stupid BS.
It's an expression...



What do your white blood cell say to your red blood cells? "Move over because my history is more important to KR than yours?"
Nobody has more important history than anyone else, it should just be taught on the basis of what happened, not who did it. If we did that, Negro history wouldn't really be mentioned, as there isn't much of it. THAT is why they need to designate a month FOR the Negro. Unless you have a better reason for it.


okay, what contributions?
Are you seriously curious or do you just want me to name them?

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Quote: from kidd rune at 9:21 am on Oct. 11, 2008

It's an expression...
Yeah a pretty retarded one. But you expert at those.



Nobody has more important history than anyone else, it should just be taught on the basis of what happened, not who did it. If we did that, Negro history wouldn't really be mentioned, as there isn't much of it.

Oh thats right NOTHING happened in Africa everyone knows that!  

Nothing happened in Egypt.  
Nothing happened in Sumer
Nothing happened in Kush, in Tripoli, in Morrocco, in Ancient Lybia
Nothing happened in Carthage
Nothing happened in Ethiopia
Nothing happened in the Songhai Empire
Nothing happened in Nubia




okay, what contributions?
Are you seriously curious or do you just want me to name them?

Were they YOURS?

Post edited at 12:47 pm on Oct. 11, 2008 by jakelong

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