I was quite happy to accept the concept that society should be colour blind and always strive for integration.

Then just in these recent years I woke up to what's actually going on.

It's not about being colour blind and judging people on their merits like King use to say.....It's about identity politics for non white groups.

Positive Identity for me...but negative identity for thee.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Feb 2019 8.48pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

So I can go to the British Museum can I and tell then that they celebrate white history and are specifically about white people?

No I can't....and you know why that is.

Because it's about being British.....not white. The focus isn't on race.....So it's not the same or even close to it.

If it's ok for one race to have museums specifically celebrating their race.....well, then it's alright for other races too.

You shouldn't see that as a threat neither.

Your paragraph talking about 'exploitation and marginalization' is a narrative I don't agree with. It's propaganda used against white people to justify modern day victim industries like diversity programmes.

....and spending money on museums dedicated to one group's skin colour and racial genetics.

Edited by Stirlingsays (02 Feb 2019 9.39pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Agreed.

Buy Litecoin.

The most pleasing thing about this thread is the lack of posters; it is clear the vast majority saw it for what it was and moved on.

Im off to the museum of white supremacy for a slap up, ethnic minority served meat feast with the OP.

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It's been up for two hours and had about ten different posters.

There is no such thing as 'white supremacy'.....just more anti white propaganda that you have been brain washed into believing.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

I understand this view but it is not accurate.

Culture celebrated in British museums is not based on skin colour. It is universal.
The problem for Black people is that their part in it
is not very palatable for the most part because they have been largely excluded, not because they have been deliberately marginalised retrospectively, but simply because of their absence or lack of status.

There is now a movement to reinterpret history to paint prominent White figures in history such as Lincoln, Washington, Churchill etc as evil racists when they were just men of their time with the accepted attitudes of the time.
We cannot judge the past by modern standards and attitudes.
At the same time, there is an effort to talk up Black figures who were relatively unimportant to make them seem more historically significant than they ever were. .
Now the inventing and reinterpretation of history is nothing new but we mustn't continue to be fooled by it or encouraged into some sort of guilt trip or a sense of resentment about past events. That helps no one.

The problem is that people generally don't really want the 'truth' but a history that makes them feel good. You see this with ancestral research and cultural stories all the time.
Sadly, far too often, celebrating Black culture is divisive and often at the expense of the White man. This only perpetuates a narrative that guarantees continuing discord. Neither I or anyone else is responsible for something that our grandfather x5 did and neither can we blame him for living by the standards of the time.

Until we stop identifying as a colour or religion, we are doomed to repeat the same old pattern of division.

I'm not holding my breath.