maddy kinsella
Aug 31, 2018 · 2 min read

The term “white pride” is white people lumping themselves together… people of color did not coin that phrase. If someone says they are proud to be Scottish or proud to be Spanish, that’s not an issue. They are celebrating their heritage. Many black people don’t know their specific heritage because their ancestors were brought to the US as slaves and it is hard to trace it back to before that. Hence “black pride” instead of Ethiopian pride, Nigerian pride, etc. (although you can still have pride if you know that is your background.) White pride is a phrase used by Neo-Nazis to justify their view of white superiority.

Also the fact that you say black slaves were just “picking cotton” like they had it better than Koreans is BS. Yes, Koreans were targeted by the Japanese and experienced horrible and violent injustices, I’m not disputing that. But black slaves were also raped, beaten, killed, separated from their families and sold like it was nothing. They were worked until they couldn’t anymore and then they were discarded like trash. Literally everything you said Koreans experienced at the hands of the Japanese is what black slaves experienced in America.

And nobody is saying that white people today are responsible for the actions of white people in the past. But they still benefit from it. We still live in a society that targets and oppresses people of color. And of course this isn’t the only instance of one group dominating another. But that doesn’t mean we should ignore the privilege our society offers to white people that people of color don’t experience. I’m not going to go into all the nitty gritty of what cultural privilege means, because this post is long enough already.