I am a white Southerner whose family lines in this country go back into the early 1600's.
What does that make me guilty of?
I have ancestors who were,with physical evidence, benevolent slave holders. What am I guilty of? My father was beaten with chains and
sticks during a school riot in the 60's because he was white and didn't run from a mob of black students. He, along with his sister and brother, were forced to stand on the school bus every day even thought the black students who made up the majority were seated one to a seat. He also was cut to the skull with a razor blade because he was trying to defend his sister from a black student on the bus who kept sticking his hand up his little sister's skirt.
On a more recent note, my wife was mugged on Mothers day on the DC Metro by a Black man who said he was going to send her to her mother in a box! Oh, there were plenty of bystanders that could have helped her but my wife was the wrong color so they just sat there and stared all the while calling her white b!$ch.
She tried reporting it to a Black police officer at the metro but was told that she couldn't file a report because it was an isolated incident!
I myself have been in many fights because I was a "white boy" that will not sit quietly while hippocracy strangled our school systems and our community. I have never lynched anyone, I have never made anyone sit at the back of a bus, I have never told anyone "Negroes can't eat here", I have never beat anyone because they were black, I try to live as Christ lived, I treat every man as being created equal in the sight of God, and judge a man only by his character. Is that not what Dr King wanted? What then, am I guilty of? What more can you ask of a man? Rev Lowry, Rev Jackson, Rev Sharpton, Rev Wright...You tell your people that the white man is tired of being pushed! You tell them that this generation is guilty of nothing! You wolves in sheeps clothing, tell your people that their days of implying guilt where there is none are OVER!