quartz-poker:

just-shower-thoughts:

White people are the only ones not allowed to be proud of the colour of their skin.

You can as long as you don’t hurt others. It’s just most white people who are “proud” are 1. Bigots and 2. Ignorant as hell about actual white cultures. Actual white pride is fascination with ancient Greece, ancient Persia, ancient Assyria, Rome, Germanic Tribes, the Slavs, Celts, etc. Actual white pride is knowing what the PIE language is and how all the European cultures are connected by it. Actual white pride is knowing Iran and Ireland are more linked and alike than different, even if the dominant religions are different. It’s knowing different languages and religions are nothing compared to thousands of years of shared DNA, shared culture, and shared experiences. Actual pride involves knowing history, understanding how everything interacted, and looking forward to leaving similar meaningful historical achievements. Actual pride never oppresses. Actual pride doesn’t make excuses for failures of the past, it looks to make up for them. It is knowing you are the current pinnacle of thousands of years of culture, but everyone before you left meaningful legacies. It is your duty to do the same if you have pride in your heritage. You will be someone else’s heritage someday. You must leave a meaningful legacy for them to be proud of, if you claim to have pride in heritage. That’s what pride really is about, after all. It’s being proud of your ancestors, but more importantly, it’s about improving the world so your descendents can be proud of you. That’s what pride movements are about. White people can do that too, but you have to be willing to learn about the past and willing to improve the future for people you’ll never know. tl;dr: The point of a pride group is making sure people in the future have a better life and a heritage to be proud of.