“White Guilt”

Through voluntary submission, we arrive at the depravity, the corruption, and the decline of Western Civilization.

The hotels are filled with them, and running out of room.

So, New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants New Yorkers to share their homes with the glut of illegal migrants who’ve encamped on the town.

He’s got five bedrooms at Gracie Mansion. How about there for a start?

Accordingly, a three-year-old video has emerged featuring Dan Cathy, CEO at Chick-fil-A, demonstrating what he calls remorse, contrition, and shame.

He urges white people to shine the shoes of black people as a sign of regret. Saying so, he did exactly that at a gathering to commemorate the George Floyd affair.

The chattering classes are mad at Suella Braverman again. What’s she done this time? Brace yourselves: she said racial collective guilt is a bad idea. She said we should not demonise an entire race just because some members of that race did something bad. She said we should never engage in racial shaming. Is there no end to this woman’s nastiness?

I’m old enough to remember when comments like these would have been utterly uncontroversial. When they would have been treated as decent and progressive, in fact. Right-thinking people once railed against the ideology of collective racial punishment, against the ugly idea that the sins of the individual should be visited upon the ethnic group he or she hailed from.

How can I extol the virtues of anti-racism while birthing another white person?

I’m here to apologize to my brothers and sisters of color — my white daughter’s pale skin has brought me nothing but shame. I have failed as an ally.
For if whiteness is the root cause of systemic racism, then what does that make me for having a white child? How can I extol the virtues of anti-racism and dismantle white supremacy while simultaneously birthing another white person? These two seem incompatible. If I were truly honoring my commitment to decolonizing white spaces, I would have had my tubes tied or had myself euthanized and done the BIPOC community and the planet a favor. I’m such a coward.

Today’s biggest debates are about justice. Terms like “social justice”, “economic justice” and “racial justice” permeate discussions on what needs to change in the world. Young people, usually the hungriest for justice, arguably have more of a voice than ever in history, thanks to social media. While it is welcome news that justice dominates debate, the narrative contains an underlying contradiction which no one is prepared to address: that we always seem to end up holding the West to higher standards of justice than others without ever quite explaining why this ought to be the case.