As a white, bisexual woman in society, I support things like Black Lives Matter, LGBT rights, Women's rights and many others.
I follow a lot of liberalized pages on my personal Facebook and lately have been seeing some posts that are fairly upsetting.
A lot of the posts I see say things along the lines of, “You have white privilege, so you're a bad person.”
“White people cause all of America’s problems”
“Whites are terrorists, etc.”
A lot of these posts are coming from people who support BLM, are appalled by the Muslim ban, want everyone to love each other and speak against prejudice--but these posts sound pretty prejudice to me.
The fact of the matter is that, no, not all whites are terrible fascists that want to kill everyone.
Profiling us as such is no different than profiling all Muslims as terrorists. It is inaccurate, racist and very close-minded.
I am white. I have no choice over the color of my skin, much like you don’t.
I am white, and I will not apologize for it.
I will not and cannot apologize for my ancestors because I am not them.
I won't oppress you. I will not savagely beat you. I won't possess you.
My favorite saying is, “I never owned slaves, and you've never picked cotton.”
Don't hate me and my entire race just because of a few radicals-- now, doesn't that sound familiar?
Do not tell me you're a peace activist if you say things like this.
Do not tell me you're not racist.
Do not tell me you're accepting.
Most importantly, don't tell me you're a liberal.
Liberals love everyone and want equal opportunities--for everyone.
People like you are where the misconceived ideas of liberals’ beliefs come from.
That is not who we are.
As a white woman in today's age, I promise to love every race, to help when I can and try my best to bring everyone together, instead of tearing them apart.
I am white, and I am not sorry.
