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I've often been told I have no correct to write nigh race.

I've besides been told that I pompously "call back I have a right" to write about race just because I married a Mexican.

And you know what? Often I find myself second guessing ix-tenths of what I say because, undoubtedly I'll say something that someone somewhere volition scream about how I have no right to say for ane simple fact:

I'm white.

Even as I sit down hither writing this, I've stopped and started at to the lowest degree a dozen times, thinking virtually the correct fashion to put all this to mitigate the inevitable backlash.

Only you know what? That'due south really the entire point.

We need to stop apologizing for being white.

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No—in that location aren't millions of white people running around with cerise messages on their apparel in shame and embarrassment, but they might likewise exist.

When our educational activity system peddles workshops like "Deconstructing Whiteness" (Northwestern University'due south latest offer), that's exactly what'southward going on.

They're helping the adjacent generation of young white Americans braze that proverbial scarlet letter for the rest of their lives.

Here'south how information technology works: students at Northwestern University who "self-place as white" tin participate in a six-week class that guides them through "terminology used in conversations of race, the history and pregnant of whiteness, white guilt and the difference between intellectualizing and feeling racism."

(Oh, and it's voluntary—except once you begin it y'all can't leave until you lot've finished all half-dozen weeks.)

Ok, then allow me ask you lot this:

What problems are solved by raising entire generations of Americans to hate the colour of their pare?

What problems are solved past rewriting history and teaching millions of young people to believe that white people are the only perpetrators of ill the world has ever seen?

What problems are solved past dictating how and who may take conversations about race?

What problems are solved by furthering the fallacy that skin colour is the only determining factor in problems of injustice?

Instead, workout people to hate who they are because others who look like them did terrible things only deepens the icky (and ever growing) racial divide in this land.

Conditioning gild to believe racism only goes ane way only gives a gratuitous pass to people similar the despicable group of black teens who surrounded a Marine at a McDonald's and vanquish him upward after he didn't react to their racial harassment.

Conditioning order to believe that success in life is the result of "white privilege" does nothing to prepare the brokenness in the African American family unit, where so many children grow up fatherless and impoverished.

"Whiteness" does non inherently cause oppression. Spreading this fallacy that whiteness alone has causes and continues to cause racism is no less logically flawed than insisting that spoons make you fat, or gas pedals get you speeding tickets.

We're completely ignoring the human element. We're flawed. We ALL make the very same mistakes—from hate to slavery to superiority complexes and everything in betwixt.

And no amount of white-hating, white-shaming propaganda is going to fix that.

So, want to assistance heal the racial divide? Start by ditching the ridiculously one-sided racial reeducation workshops.

And stop apologizing for your race.

Mary Ramirez is a full-time writer, creator of www.afuturefree.com (a political commentary web log), and contributor to The Chris Salcedo Show (TheBlaze Radio Network, Saturday, from noon to iii p.yard. ET). She can be reached at: afuturefree@aol.com; or on Twitter: @AFutureFree

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