You used two words, the first of which was “race,” and that’s the one I specifically commented on.

If you’ll check “race” in the same dictionary, you’ll find that it says it originated in 1580.

racist
One entry found.

Main Entry:
rac·ism Listen to the pronunciation of racism
Pronunciation:
\?r?-?si-z?m also -?shi-\
Function: noun
Date: 1933

1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race 2 : racial prejudice or discrimination
— rac·ist Listen to the pronunciation of racist \-sist also -shist\ noun or adjective

I couldn’t agree more that “race” has no scientific meaning whatsoever. Race is merely a shared belief that certain physical or ancestral traits have significance.

However, in the past, our society chose to give the concept of race a great deal of significance. The result is that people were horribly mistreated, and the effects of that mistreatment are still with us today. As long as there are concrete, material consequences of that mistreatment, our society’s mistaken belief in race lives on. It would be futile to believe that by granting race no further meaning, we could also wipe out those effects.

(The word “race,” incidentally, did not come into existence in the 1930s. The word has been used in English to refer to people of common ancestry since the 16th century, and the use of the word to divide people into different categories, with some being inferior, has existed since at least the height of U.S. slavery.)

You claim that I’m suffering from “white guilt,” and yet I say that I feel no guilt over race. Can you explain why you believe I suffer from “white guilt”?

As for a socialist agenda, anyone who reads my blog can easily see that I share none of the ideological tenets of socialism.

You are gravely mistaken when you claim that you have no ties to slavery. No one alive today is responsible for slavery in the U.S. Yet we are all tied to that institution, because we all share in the benefits of it.

You might also be interested to know that slavery was not limited to “a very small group of wealthy land owners.” In fact, slave owning was more widespread than that.

Consider Barack Obama’s ancestors, for instance: two of them each owned just two slaves. They were certainly not wealthy land owners, and they were fairly typical. During slavery, many middle-class Americans owned one or two slaves. In the north, where large plantations were rare, ordinary family farmers would often own one, two, or even three slaves.

While many Americans were exploited in one way or another, few were exploited to the extent that African-descended slaves were. In addition, most (if not all) Americans alive during slavery benefited from that institution. You can read more elsewhere on this blog, but in a nutshell, slavery and the slave trade were substantial engines of the early American economy. Their economic effects were felt everywhere, in jobs, investments, and in the prices of the most mundane consumer goods (such as sugar and clothing).

You are apparently suffering from a sickness called “White Guilt” foisted upon you by the media brainwashing of left wing nut bags and other assorted socialist morons. Your writings reflect the disingenuous ideology of a failed socialist agenda.

I have no guilt over what was done to people who have been dead for 200 years. I have no ties to slavery as is true with 99% of the American public both white and black. Slave owners where a very small group of wealthy land owners, very small. The rest of the population where as equally exploited by these same land owners as the Negros imported from Africa. Everyone seems to forget that slavery was NOT just for Africans, anyone could be inducted into slavery/servitude if they where not rich land owners or of the wealthy class.

Quit being an apologist for the “whitey” haters and their ignorant ilk!