Interesting hat people say when asked which race has killed the most people in history;
Which race has killed the most people throughout history?
From your article,
Like all white Americans, I was living with the fear that maybe I didn't really deserve my success, that maybe luck and privilege had more to do with it than brains and hard work. I was afraid I wasn't heroic or rugged, that I wasn't special. I let go of some of that fear when I realized that, indeed, I wasn't special, but that I was still me. What I do well, I still can take pride in, even when I know that the rules under which I work in are stacked to my benefit. Until we let go of the fiction that people have complete control over their fate - that we can will ourselves to be anything we choose - then we will live with that fear.
Like All white Americans? is this really looking into a mind of a black person? you think no one who is white has suffered or has the scars of life? you just have no idea, because you see the image of white people you want to see. the reality is this is a big world and there are so many variables.
If your talking about white Americans holding Government jobs and being on the taxpayer dole, you may have a point. My family who immigrated here in the mid 1800s didn't have time to be concerned if they really did'nt deserve their "success" they were more concerned about surviving winters in northern Utah, keeping cattle alive and the fences up, raising wheat, and no, they didn't have slaves or laborers from Mexico working for them, they did the work themselves, ended up traveling across the western united states , putting themselves through school, or working jobs in industry. Again, no time to worry if their success of staying alive and keeping their kids fed because they had to work every day of their lives was undeserved. Personally, I really dont think they were living with that fear, that EVERY white american suppossedly has.
Could this be more crap developed by the great minds in American college campuses peddling African American Studies? Me really thinks so. Good luck to you